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.

    The principal saloon was the Howlin’ Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, “We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)