Permit

Famous quotes containing the word permit:

    Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)

    I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)