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)

    I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
    To his father’s house below securely bound.
    Edwin Muir (1887–1959)