Left-Handers Day 2018 Quotes: 10 Sayings About Being Lefty

Thursday, Aug. 13, is celebrated as Left-Handers Day, to honor the 10 percent of people whose left hand is dominant. This day was first marked in 1992 by the Left-Handers Club when the group launched an annual event to inform the public about the advantages of being a left-hander.

Nearly 30 million people in the U.S. are left-handed. Eight presidents of the United States, including Barack Obama, were left-handed. Some famous lefties include Angelina Jolie, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Tina Fey, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Stewart, Robert DeNiro, Jim Henson, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Keanu Reeves, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey and Nicole Kidman.

Here are some fun quotes about lefties:

1. "I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed." — Laurence Fishburne

2. “Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.” — George Bernard Shaw

3. “All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”— Walter Benjamin

4. "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left." — Ecclesiastes 10:2

5. “I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil, her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.” — Sara Gruen, “Water for Elephants”

6. "I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them." — Kurt Cobain

7. "Left-handers are wired into the artistic half of the brain, which makes them imaginative, creative, surprising, ambiguous, exasperating, stubborn, emotional, witty, obsessive, infuriating, delightful, original, but never, never, dull." — James T deKay

8. "To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment." — Herman Melville

9. "If the left half of the brain controls the right half of the body then only left handed people are in the right mind." — W.C. Fields

10. "God made everyone right-handed, the truly gifted overcome it." — Anonymous