Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“In the slug
And snarl of music, under cover of
A few permitted movements, you suggest
A whole consenting language....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)