Conventional Wood

Famous quotes containing the words conventional and/or wood:

“We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)

“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.