Famous quotes containing the words plates and/or held:
“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)