Famous quotes containing the words flat and/or plate:
“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Our press is certainly bankrupt in the “thrill of awe”Motherwise reverence: reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. Let us sincerely hope that this fact will remain a fact forever; for to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)