Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or main:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Yours of the 24th, asking “the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law” is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully.... Work, work, work, is the main thing.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)