bob quotes

The difficultest job a man can do, is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week, and feel that that's the proper thing for you.

-John Davidson
  Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza15.

Gwine to run all night, Gwine to run all day, I'll bet my money on de bob-tail nag, Somebody bet on de bay.

- Stephen Collins Foster
  'Camptown Races', chorus.