Famous quotes containing the words compulsory and/or purchase:
“If a girls a stewardess, she might as well forget it after twenty-six. They no longer have compulsory retirement, but the girls get into a rut at that age. A lot of them start showing the rough life theyve lived.”
—Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;”
—Thomas Flatman (16371688)
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