thumb quotes

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

- Sir Kingsley Amis
  Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle,  Jun.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

- Sir Isaac Newton
Attributed.

The fact is, there are no rules and there never were any rules, and there never will be any rules of musical composition except rules of thumb; and thumbs vary in length, like ears.

- George Bernard Shaw
Music in London,1890^1894.