Famous quotes containing the words year and/or petty:
“I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it—”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewise it is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)