Carpenter

Famous quotes containing the word carpenter:

“This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wif
Which that he loved more than his lif.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“He came home.”
—John Carpenter (b. 1948)