Famous quotes containing the words beam and/or sharpening:
“How can one beam alone support a house?”
—Chinese proverb.
“Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)