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)
“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)
“From this moment, then, my dear girl—but why, permit me to ask, must a female be made Nobody? Ah! my dear, what were this world good for, were Nobody a female?”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)