Famous quotes containing the word permit:
“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)
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“I wondered just how far women would permit this to go.”
—David Duncan (b.1913)