Beam Rifle

Famous quotes containing the words beam and/or rifle:

“How can one beam alone support a house?”
—Chinese proverb.

“Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)