Printing Plates

Famous quotes containing the words printing and/or plates:

    It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Realms and islands were
    As plates dropped from his pocket.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)