BUILDING

Related Subjects: Architecture, House

1. To build many houses is the readiest road to poverty.—Anonymous
   

2. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.—Bible, Psalms 118:22

3. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?—Bible, Luke 14:28
   

4. Buildings are the books that everybody unconsciously ready; and if they are a libel on the laws of architecture, they will surely vitiate in time the taste of those who become familiarized to their deformity.—CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS, My Unknown Chum
   

5. To build is to be robbed.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler

6. Ah, to build, to build!
   That is the noblest art of all the arts.—LONGFELLOW, Michael Angelo
   

7. Men who love building are their own undoers, and need no other enemies.—MARCUS CRASSUS, Plutarch: Lives
   

8. The building which is fitted accurately to its end will turn out to be beautiful, though beauty is not intended.—GEORGE MOLLER, Essay on Architecture
   

9. Building is a sweet impoverishing.—Proverb
   

10. When we build, let us think that we build forever.—RUSKIN, Seven Lamps of Architecture