Permitted Hours

Famous quotes containing the words permitted and/or hours:

“Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resemble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.