Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or key:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)