My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings12:10^11.

Mens cuiusque is est quisque: non ea figura quae digito demonstrari potest. The mind is the true self, not the person that can be pointed to with the finger.

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
De Republica bk.6, ch.24.

Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me.

-Connally,Tom (ThomasTerry)
  To Senator Charles Tobey. Reported in Time, 8 Nov.

Whose finger do you want on the trigger?

-Daily Mirror
  Headline, 21 Sep, referring to the atom bomb.

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

-Fitzgerald, Edward
  The Ruba¤  iya¤  t of Omar Khayya¤  m of Naishapur, stanza 51.

   Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin
  Death of a Naturalist,'Digging'.

   It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.2, pt.3, section 3.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Manö There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:ö That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'.

We have been too comfortable and too indulgentömany, perhaps, too selfishöand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech, London,19 Sep.

Are we so sure that with15 representatives†inacting under the unanimity rule, the deterrent would continue to deter? There may be one finger on the trigger, but there will be15 fingers on the safety catch.

-Stockton
NATO, 1960  House of Commons, 30 May.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

-Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford
A Voyage Round My Father, act1.

I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  Good Intentions,'Samson  Agonistes'.

Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children.One finger in thethroat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

-Osler, Sir William
Collected in W B Bean (ed) Sir William Osler:  Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

-Safer, Morley
  In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

Look not thou on beauty's charming,ö Sit thou still when kings are arming.ö Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,ö Speak not when the people listens,ö Stop thine ear against the singer,ö From the red gold keep thy finger,ö Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,ö Easy live and quiet die.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Bride of Lammermoor, ch.3 (LucyAshton's song).

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 85, l.20.