House/construction

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or construction:

“Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)