Permit

Famous quotes containing the word permit:

    “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)

    “If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
    But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
    May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
    The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.”
    —James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

    “I wondered just how far women would permit this to go.”
    —David Duncan (b.1913)