Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law.
Derek JarmanLaws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.
William ShenstoneI know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S GrantMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law (Book of the Law)
Aleister CrowleyAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauEventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
Karen AllenMy decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession
John GrishamIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TacitusBring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
OvidNothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth LloydIt will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James MadisonCustom, the unwritten law,
By which the people keep even kings in awe. [Circe, II]
Charles DavenantThe way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.
Reggie JacksonThe animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James ThurberThe one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
Charles DickensMy mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim AllenCertain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress
Johann Lavater Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund BurkeI learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred AllenOne with the law is a majority.
Calvin CoolidgeI would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Sir Thomas MoreWe are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Emmeline PankhurstMy mother-in-law! If she lived in India, she’d be sacred. She’s like Boris Karloff after a busy night at the graveyard.
Bill TarmeyI wanted Lawrie Sanchez to concentrate on Fulham
Mohamed Al-FayedVery often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Janet FrameWhatever the commission wants to do to satisfy itself that everything is in conformity with the law, the Conservative party will assist it to do [on party loans]
Oliver LetwinI don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
Ian BothamFor the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric AmblerAcceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics
Terry RileyFarewell, Love, and all they laws forever.
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more. (Farewell, Love, 1557)
Sir Thomas WyattOnce victim, always victim - that's the law!
Thomas HardyWhen freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul IIMarriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard PryorIn university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris LessingMy definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.
Lamar HuntLaw is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and suggests forms of bias
Diane B SchulderLaw is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai StevensonThe more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TacitusLawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
Dorothy L SayersThe advantage law is the best law in rugby, because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.
Derek RobinsonI admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
Dorothy L SayersIn the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
Doris LessingIt is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind
Herrick JohnsonNothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature
Michael FaradayDenis Law could dance on eggshells.
Bill ShanklyI have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth AngerIt is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is
MontaigneIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles DarwinAs 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
Albert Einstein
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