Axe Lake Swamp

Famous quotes containing the words axe, lake and/or swamp:

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

“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)

“That swamp of impropriety ... in ... which two civilized beings will behave like cannibals.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)