Wood/history

Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or history:

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

“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”
—Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971)