Pick Axe

Famous quotes containing the words pick and/or axe:

“Growing old is no gradual decline, but a series of tumbles, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another. Yet when we pick ourselves up we find no bones are broken; while not unpleasing is the new terrace which stretches out unexplored before us.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

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