Beam Rifle

Famous quotes containing the words beam and/or rifle:

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

“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)