Cheiro > Quotes

“In a room on the top of a seven-story house one’s anxieties are also less-one never sees one’s enemies, and one’s friends may be few, but they must be real if they ever reach one’s door.”
― Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist

“past, present, and future.”
― Cheiro, Cheiro's : Language of the Hand

“On this occasion I was extremely nervous, for my experience had already taught me that even the most intimate friends seldom know the real character of the person they are with, and of all people parents generally make the greatest mistakes about the characters of their own children.”
― Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist

“In vain I explained that Cheir was the Greek word for hand, and that “Cheiro “ would thus become identified by intelligent people with the exponent of the hand.”
― Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist

“If I did not publish this book, others would have done so for me ; and in that case I fear fiction might have become stranger than truth.”
― Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist

“In the original Hebrew of the Book of Job (chap. xxxvii., ver. 7), we find these significant words: "God caused signs or seals on the hands of all the sons of men, that the sons of men might know their works.”
― Cheiro, Palmistry for All

“It appears that at one period of the ancient Greek civilisation all women had to come to the priest at their Temple to have their hands examined before they were allowed to marry.”
― Cheiro