“It will not always be summer, build barns.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.
“A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”
Said during filmed conversation with reporters (c. 1953); reported in "Speak, Mister Speaker" (1978), p. 138.
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