Minority Plank

Famous quotes containing the words minority and/or plank:

“Time and I against any two.”
—Spanish proverb.

Quoted by Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV.

“And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down—
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing—then—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)