Famous quotes containing the words stretched, upper and/or deck:
“For when the gallows is high
Your journey is shorter to heaven.”
—Unknown. The Night before Larry Was Stretched (l. 57–58)
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptune’s diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)