Famous quotes containing the words license and/or plates:
“Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature’s laws are more immutable than any despot’s, yet to man’s daily life they rarely seem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)