Famous quotes containing the words minute and/or mile:
“A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile (l. 1–4)