Quotes
Quotes about Law
Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
And do as adversaries do in law,â Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
So many laws argues so many sins.
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow, Gloves as sweet as damask roses, Masks for faces and for noses, Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber, Golden quoifs and stomachers For my lads to give their dears, Pins and poking-sticks of steel, What maids lack from head to heel.
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him
