General Convention Held

Famous quotes containing the words general, convention and/or held:

“Under an able general there are no weak troops.”
—Chinese proverb.

“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by
convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”
—Democritus (c. 460–400 B.C.)

“Even he was abashed
and I laughed
and held him close
when he went for the knot
of my underclothes
and I’d already untied it.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)