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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
Desi Arnaz

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim Allen

'If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.'
Charles Dickens

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.
Edwin Muir

Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
Malcolm Forbes

If you need to get a rebate, then you should debate, is it fair by the law, that you had to pay more?
Stan Stevens

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
John Mortimer

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean De La Bruyere

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test.
Ronald Reagan

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr

Laws were made to be broken. (Blackwood's Magazine)
Christopher North

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D Brandeis

Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
Walt Whitman

Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful - you might as well live.
Dorothy Parker

As I am a first-time blogger, perhaps I should note herein that I am a lawyer and a student of the Constitution.
John Jay Hooker

Bad laws were made to be broken.
Doctor Who

Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else.
Washington Irving

I 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 Anger

The Führer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson

Lawyers 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 Sayers

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Sir Walter Scott

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb

As 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 Thoreau

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Ambler

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest
Florence Nightingale

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession
John Grisham

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen

When 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 II

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
Joachim Du Bellay

All things obey fixed laws
Manilius

One law for lion and ox is oppression.
William Blake

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence King

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
Michael Howard

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Robert Bork

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A E Housman

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom
Montaigne

Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nations.
Jack Brooks

The 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 Thurber

I think it's gonna be a lot of lawyers sitting in a room trying to thrash out a deal before it will ever happen [on the Hobbit]
Peter Jackson

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin



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