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.

    “If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)