Construction Rule

Famous quotes containing the words construction and/or rule:

“Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“There were some schools, so called [in my youth]; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond “readin, writin, and cipherin,” to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)