Timber Frame House

Famous quotes containing the words timber, frame and/or house:

“Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

“Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it,
And therefore frame the law unto my will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of pain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)