Famous quotes containing the words rafter ends, log and/or ends:
“Rafter ends that jut out from under the roof will rot first.”
—Chinese proverb.
“‘T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it comes a Latin grammar,—and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state—everything is a pretext for a good dinner.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)