General Convention

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or convention:

    “As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood—a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
    —United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.