Log Rafter Ends

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.

    There was now no road further, the river being the only highway, and but half a dozen log huts, confined to its banks, to be met with for thirty miles. On either hand, and beyond, was a wholly uninhabited wilderness, stretching to Canada.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    they filled his belly
    with large stones and sewed him up.
    He was as heavy as a cemetery
    and when he woke up and tried to run off
    he fell over dead. Killed by his own weight.
    Many a deception ends on such a note.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)