Small Submerged Reef

Famous quotes containing the words small, submerged and/or reef:

“Lack of patience in small matters can create havoc in great ones.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures of its inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)