Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Edward Young
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. Albert Einstein
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. William Tecumseh Sherman
At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it! Zig Ziglar
By their marks the bales are known. Italian Proverb
It takes bales of hundredweight because a fire of straw lasts little. Sicilian Proverb