“The finger cut, to save the hand.”

“Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.”

“Grip the long sword with a rather floating feeling in your thumb and forefinger, with the middle finger neither tight nor slack, and with the last two fingers tight. It is bad to have play in your hands.
When you take up a sword, you must feel intent on cutting the enemy. As you cut an enemy you must not change your grip, and your hands must not "cower". When you dash the enemy's sword aside, or ward it off, or force it down, you must slightly change the feeling in your thumb and forefinger. Above all, you must be intent on cutting the enemy in the way you grip the sword.”

“On the other hand, you have different fingers.”

“Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.”

“He would have liked to say goodbye,
Shake hands with many friends.
In Highgate now his finger-bones
Stick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus,
Say, "Save his soul and pray."
You ask me to believe You and
I only see decay.”

“To me, tragedy is if I'll cut my finger, that's tragedy…Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.”

“The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.”

“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”