Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.”
—Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
“Franklin,—Washington,—they were left off without dying; they were merely missing one day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)