Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“Often I am permitted to return to a meadow
as if it were a given property of the mind
that certain bounds hold against chaos,
that is a place of first permission,
everlasting omen of what is.”
—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)
“Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)