Famous quotes containing the words paint and/or barn:
“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)