Quotes
Quotes about Law
Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis belov'd of many: Other joys Are but toys; Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
A government of laws, and not of men.
"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
