Famous quotes containing the words main and/or span:
“If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timbers will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Life’s brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)