Famous quotes containing the words minimum, allowable and/or bid:
“After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)
“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“Often he bid me come and have a look
Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside,
At a star quaking in the other end.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)