Famous quotes containing the words high and/or ceiling:
“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they are without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“What made the ceiling waterproof?
Landor’s tarpaulin on the roof.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)