#permit

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. ↗

— Fred Allen

#device #haven #people #permits #television

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ↗

— Aristotle

#desires #down #increase #increased #means

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory

Science does not permit exceptions. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#exceptions #permit #science

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#approaches #believed #claim #creative #degree

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#enjoyment #experienced #had #heaven #indeed

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#activity #children #lives #our #our lives

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#been #build #climbing #had #permitted

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. ↗

— James Boswell

#good #make #only #permitted #power