Quotes
Quotes about Law
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! Born the free heir of nature's wide domain, To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign; Resigns his native rights for meaner things, For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Laws were made to be broken.
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.
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence.
