Minimum Allowable Bid

Famous quotes containing the words minimum, allowable and/or bid:

    There are ... two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of behavior which are valid according to the system’s ultimate criteria of validity must be generally obeyed, and on the other hand, its rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behavior by its officials.
    —H.L.A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus)

    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)

    O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
    Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
    And bid them wander obeying your will,
    Flame under flame, till Time be no more....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)