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)
“She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)