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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel  for love is not ours to command.
— Alan Watts
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
— Anton Chekhov
The love of liberty is the love of others  the love of power is the love of ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules  then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
— Anonymous
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
— Elbert Hubbard
Without love  benevolence becomes egotism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine  it becomes more satisfying  more refreshing  more valuable  more appreciated and more intoxicating!
— Leo Buscaglia
Guard within yourself that treasure  kindness. Know how to give without hesitation  how to lose without regret  how to acquire without meanness  know how to replace in your heart  by the happiness of those you love  the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.
— George Sand
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being  it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself  since I am a human being too.
— Erich Fromm
Self-love  my liege  is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
— William Shakespeare
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
— Eudora Welty
Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command  His first command is this - "Man  love thyself."
— Edward Young
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
— Anthony Powell
Love is  above all else  the gift of oneself.
— Jean Anouilh
A heart that loves is always young.
— Greek proverb
Who so loves  believes the impossible.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.
— Marcus Aurelius
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog  when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship  tense and anxious  groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line  and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began  only I was without compass or sounding line  and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul  and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.
— Helen Keller
Love can be understood only "from the inside " as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it  as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
— Robert C. Solomon
Want  the mistress of invention.
— Susanna Centlivre
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand  and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God hath made man upright  but they have sought out many inventions.
— Bible
When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood  God blessed the green island  he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe  it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world  the most precious stone.
— William Drennan
Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die  Oh  what matter  when for Erin dear we fall.
— T. D. Sullivan
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
— Temistocle Solera
Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it  "Italy."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beyond the Alps lies Italy.
— English Saying
On desperate seas long wont to roam  Thy hyacinth hair  they classic face  Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
— Edgar Allan Poe
My soul today Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
— Thomas B. Read
He that is not jealous is not in love.
— St. Augustine
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
— La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
— Mme. De Puisieux
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
— Friedrich von Schiller
Jealousy's eyes are green.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
— John Dennis
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
— English proverb
Alas  poor Yorick! I knew him  Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest  of most excellent fancy.
— William Shakespeare
Jesters do often prove prophets.
— William Shakespeare
The Jews were God's chosen people.
— St. Chrysostom
I will make of thee a great nation  and I will bless thee  and make thy name great.
— Bible
To undo a Jew is charity  and not sin.
— Christopher Marlowe
It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.
— Pope Pius XI
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands  organs  dimensions  senses  affections  passions? fed with die same food  hurt with the same weapons  subject to the same diseases  healed by the same means  warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer  as a Christian is?
— William Shakespeare
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
— Matthew
Pearl of great price.
— Matthew
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.
— Samuel Bowles
Get your facts first  and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
— S. L. Clemens
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament  but  in the Reporters' gallery yonder  there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
— Thomas Carlyle
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think  not what you think.
— Arthur Brisbane
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth  - truth which tends to make mankind wiser  and thus happier.
— Horace Greeley
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
— Jean de la Fontaine
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
— Napoleon
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
— Wendell Phillips
The newspapers! Sir  they are the most villainous -  licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
— R. B. Sheridan
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
— William Shakespeare
All human joys are swift of wing  For heaven doth so allot it  That when you get an easy thing  You find you haven't got it.
— Eugene Field
Sweets with sweets war not  joy delights in joy.
— William Shakespeare
I have drunken deep of joy  And I will taste no other wine tonight.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
— Miguel de Cervantes
A Daniel come to judgment! yea  a Daniel! O wise young judge  how I do honor thee!
— William Shakespeare
Let the judges answer to the question of law  and the jurors to the matter of fact.
— Law Maxim
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
— Edmund Burke
Judges are but men  and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality  give it whatever other name you please.
— David Dudley Field
Judges are apt to be naive  simple-minded men.
— O. W. Holmes II
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
— William Shakespeare
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously  to answer wisely  to consider soberly  and to decide impartially.
— Socrates
Thou art weighed in the balances  and art found wanting.
— Anonymous
One man's word is no man's word  we should quietly hear both sides.
— Goethe
Forbear to judge  for we are sinners all.
— William Shakespeare
Give your decision  never your reasons  your decisions may be right  your reasons are sure to be wrong.
— Lord Mansfield
Judge not  that ye be not judged.
— Matthew
Give every man thine ear  but few thy voice  Take each man's censure  but reserve thy judgment.
— William Shakespeare
O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts  And men have lost their reason!
— William Shakespeare
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
— Woodrow Wilson
Are you good men and true?
— William Shakespeare
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty  and a premium upon ignorance  stupidity and perjury.
— S. L. Clemens
The jury  passing on the prisoner's life  May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
— William Shakespeare
It is always wise  as it is also fair  to test a man by the standards of his own day  and not by those of another.
— Odell Shepard
The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
— Terence
Injustice is relatively easy to bear  what stings is justice.
— H. L. Mencken
Men are not hanged for stealing horses  but that horses may not be stolen.
— George, Lord Halifax
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
— Thomas Fuller
Thwackum was for doing justice  and leaving mercy to heaven.
— Henry Fielding
The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.
— Felix Frankfurter
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
— Barry Goldwater
Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection  or too fresh the grudge.
— Anonymous
I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.
— Roger Baldwin
This is a court of law  young man  not a court of justice.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that  when nations are strong  they are not always just  and when they wish to be just  they are no longer strong.
— Winston Churchill
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
— Lactantius
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign  and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
— Alexander Pope
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
— Clarence Darrow
Justice is too good for some people  and not good enough for the rest.
— Norman Douglas
Injustice never rules forever.
— Seneca
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
— Horace
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
The path of the just is as the shining light  that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
— Proverbs
Delay of justice is injustice.
— Walter Savage Landor
The spirits of just men made perfect.
— Hebrews
God's mill grinds slow  but sure.
— George Herbert
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
— Thomas Jefferson
Render therefore to all their dues.
— Romans
He who decides a case without hearing the other side  though he decide justly  cannot be considered just.
— Seneca
This bond is forfeit  And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
— William Shakespeare
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just  And he but naked  though lock'd up in steel  Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
— William Shakespeare
Let justice be done  though the heavens fall.
— William Watson
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on  'Twas not given for thee alone  Pass it on  Let it travel down the years  Let it wipe another's tears  Til in Heaven the deed appears  -  Pass it on.
— Rev. Henry Burton
Their cause I plead - plead it in heart and mind  A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
— David Garrick
At little more than kin  and less than kind.
— William Shakespeare
Yet do I fear thy nature  It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
— William Shakespeare
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
— Sophocles
Some women blush when they are kissed  some call for the police  some swear  some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
— Anonymous
Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?
— James Drummond Burns
Come  lay thy head upon my breast  And I will kiss thee into rest.
— Lord Byron
It was thy kiss  Love  that made me immortal.
— Margaret Fuller
Give me a kisse  and to that kisse a score  Then to that twenty  adde a hundred more  A thousand to that hundred  so kisse on  To make that thousand up a million  Treble that million  and when that is done  Let's kisse afresh  as when we first begun.
— Robert Herrick
A long  long kiss  a kiss of youth  and love.
— Lord Byron
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
— Leigh Hunt
Jenny kissed me when we met  Jumping from the chair she sat in  Time  you thief  who love to get Sweets into your list  put that in. Say I'm weary  say I'm sad  Say that health and wealth have missed me  Say I'm growing old  but add Jenny kissed me.
— Leigh Hunt
See! the mountains kiss high heaven  And the waves clasp one another  No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother  And the sunlight clasps the earth  And the moonbeams kiss the sea: -  What are all these kissings worth  If thou kiss not me?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
— Jonathan Swift
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine  Or leave a kiss but in the cup  And I'll not look for wine.
— Ben Jonson
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
All men by nature desire to know.
— Aristotle
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things  and I have succeeded fairly well.
— Robert Benchley
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary  great minds in the commonplace.
— Elbert Hubbard
Our knowledge can only be finite  while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
— Karl Popper
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
— Lord Chesterfield
President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.
— Oliver North
Ten lands are sooner known than one man.
— Old saying
The public do not know enough to be experts  yet know enough to decide between them.
— Samuel Butler
There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.
— Mongkut, King of Siam
There are two kinds of statistics  the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
— Rex Stout
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
— Cyril Joad
We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
— Rutherford D. Rogers
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
— Thomas Fuller
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
— Will Durant
Knowledge is of two kinds  we know a subject ourselves  or we know where we can find information upon it.
— Samuel Johnson
As we acquire more knowledge  things do not become more comprehensible  but more mysterious.
— Albert Schweitzer
A man must carry knowledge with him  if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
Grace is given of God  but knowledge is bought in the market.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
— Thomas Huxley
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed  but to those who have differed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Sit down before fact as a little child  be prepared to give up every preconceived notion  follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads  or you shall learn nothing.
— Thomas Huxley
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
— Robert Lynd
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
— Clarence Darrow
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
— Gertrude Stein
Anyone who stops learning is old  whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
— Henry Ford
The first problem for all of us  men and women  is not to learn  but to unlearn.
— Gloria Steinem
We should live and learn  but by the time we've learned  it's too late to live.
— Carolyn Wells
The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
— Martin H. Fisher
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass  to their daily affairs and experience  to what they have an opportunity to know  and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
— William Hazlitt
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
— Thomas Huxley
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble  it's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
In all affairs  love  religion  politics or business  it's a healthy idea  now and then  to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
— Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is power.
— Francis Bacon
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
— Samuel Johnson
To know that we know what we know  and that we do not know what we do not know  that is true knowledge.
— Henry David Thoreau
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
— Northrop Frye
They know enough who know how to learn.
— Henry Adams
Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.
— Anonymous
I take all knowledge to be my province.
— Sir Francis Bacon
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For knowledge  too  is itself a power.
— Sir Francis Bacon
The only good is knowledge  and the only evil ignorance.
— Diogenes
He that increaseth knowledge increascth sorrow.
— Bible
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One cannot know everything.
— Horace
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves  or we know where we can find information upon it.
— Samuel Johnson
He who knows others is learned  He who knows himself is wise.
— Lao-Tsze
It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble  it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.
— Negro Saying
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
— Proverbs
Then I began to think  that it is very true which is commonly said  that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
— Francois Rabelais
We know what we are  but know not what we may be.
— William Shakespeare
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God  Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
— William Shakespeare
As for me  all I know is that I know nothing.
— Socrates
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
— Miguel de Cervantes
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land  the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
— Henry George
A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world  Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power  The world must follow you!
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Labor conquers all things.
— Homer
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
— English proverb
Mary had a little lamb It's fleece was white as snow  And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
— Sarah J. Hale
Like lambs to the slaughter.
— Jeremiah
If a man own land  the land owns him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
— Thomas Jefferson
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine  for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
— Leviticus
That which is built upon the land goes with the land.
— Legal maxim
Babel  because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.
— Bible
But  for my own part  it was Greek to me.
— William Shakespeare
I am the King of Rome  and above grammar.
— Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
Language  as well as the faculty of speech  was the immediate gift of God.
— Noah Webster
The whole earth was of one language  and of one speech.
— Bible
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
— George Bernard Shaw
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned  or of dictionary-makers  but is something arising out of the work  needs  ties  joys  affections  tastes  of long generations of humanity  and has its bases broad and low  close to the ground.
— Walt Whitman
Rise with the lark  and with the lark to bed.
— James Hurdis
Hail to thee  blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert  That from Heaven  or near it  Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
He laughs best who laughs last.
— Old English Proverb
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
— Honore de Balzac
I hasten to laugh at everything  for fear of being obliged to weep.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons  strategems  and spoils  but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
— Thomas Carlyle
As the crackling of thorns under a pot  so is the laughter of a fool.
— Bible
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
— Charles C. Grevvile
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Laugh and the world laughs with you  Weep and you weep alone  For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth  But has trouble enough of its own.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
— Catullus
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
— Ambrose Bierce
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
In England  justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
— Sir James Mathew
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals  a kind of secret code.
— William Stafford
It usually takes 100 years to make a law  and then  after it's done its work  it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Laws are the spider's webs which  if anything small falls into them they ensnare it  but large things break through and escape.
— Solon
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
— Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Revenge is a kind of wild justice  which the more man's nature runs to  the more ought law to weed it out.
— Francis Bacon
That is the beauty of the Common Law  it is a maze and not a motorway.
— Lord Diplock
The law of England is a very strange one  it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
— Lord Darling
Trudeau: Yes  well  there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is  go on and bleed  but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well  just watch me. . . ."
— Bible
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter  "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."
— Anonymous
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
— Karl Llewellyn
Any fool can make a rule  and every fool will mind it.
— Anonymous
Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
— David Ferguson
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife  as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
— Barten Holyday
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not  the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
— Finley Peter Dunne
When you have no basis for an argument  abuse the plaintiff.
— Cicero
The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.
— R. I. Fitzhenry
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
— Robert Frost
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
— Martial
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
— Ambrose Bierce
In America  an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent  it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
— F. Lee Bailey
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
— Edward Bond
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
— Michel de Montaigne
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every new time will give its law.
— Maxim Gorky
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
— Danish proverb
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason  that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled  undisciplined feeling.
— Felix Frankfurter
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection  and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Samuel Butler
A vague uneasiness  the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
— Ugo Betti
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
— Robert Frost
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
— Hermann Hesse
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.
— Legal maxim
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
— Laurence H. Tribe
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
— H. L. Mencken
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
— Gertrude Stein
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common  But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
— Anonymous
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
— Hart Pomerantz
To some lawyers  all facts are created equal.
— Felix Frankfurter
And whether you're an honest man  or whether you're a thief  depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
— W. S. Gilbert
The law  in its majestic equality  forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges  to beg in the streets  and to steal bread.
— Anatole France
In cross-examination  as in fishing  nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
— Louis Nizer
Well  I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
— J. P. Morgan
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
— Roscoe Pound
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm  living public opinion.
— Wendell Phillips
If there were no bad people  there would be no good lawyers.
— Charles Dickens
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
— Learned Hand
Laws  like the spider's web  catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
— Spanish proverb
Law is a bottomless pit.
— J. Arbuthnot
Possession is eleven points in the law.
— Colley Cibber
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
— Grover Cleveland
Reason is the life of the law  nay  the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.
— Sir Edward Coke
"If the law supposes that " said Mr. Bumble  "the law is a ass  a idiot."
— Charles Dickens
Be you never so high  the law is above you.
— Thomas Fuller
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed  too severe  seldom executed.
— Benjamin Franklin
The English laws punish vice  the Chinese laws do more  they reward virtue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor  and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
— Ulysses S. Grant
If the law is upheld only by government officials  then all law is at an end.
— Herbert Hoover
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
— Thomas Jefferson
The laws sometimes sleep  but never die.
— Law Maxim
All things obey fixed laws.
— Marcus Manilius
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-
— Matthew
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.
— Michel Montaigne
Where law ends  there tyranny begins.
— William Pitt
The law hath not been dead  though it hath slept.
— William Shakespeare
A lawyer must first get on  then get honor  and then get honest.
— Anonymous
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth  that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter  some of them in hell.
— Henry Burton
It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.
— Moses Crowell
A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.
— English proverb
The first thing we do  let's kill all the lawyers.
— William Shakespeare
Most good lawyers live well  work hard  and die poor.
— Daniel Webster
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
— Anonymous
The lust for comfort  that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host  and then a master.
— Kahlil Gibran
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
— R. T. Wombat
It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease  and drowsy without tranquillity.
— Samuel Johnson
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.
— Spanish proverb
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
— Vauvenargues
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
— Kin Hubbard
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
— William Hazlitt
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
— Jules Renard
He who would rule must hear and be deaf  see and be blind.
— German proverb
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman  but I have the heart and stomach of a King  and of a King of England too.
— Elizabeth I
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
— Robert Lindner
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things  and himself of anything.
— Dean William R. Inge
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
To get others to come into our ways of thinking  we must go over to theirs  and it is necessary to follow  in order to lead.
— William Hazlitt
With a good conscience our only sure reward  with history the final judge of our deeds  let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help  but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
— John F. Kennedy
To lead the people  walk behind them.
— Lao-Tzu
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles  but today it means getting along with people.
— Indira Gandhi
When you come into the presence of a leader of men  you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
— Woodrow Wilson
I've got to follow them - I am their leader.
— Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people  like Pericles  or what is worst  like Hitler  but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
— Charles Yost
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve  which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
— Charles de Gaulle
If I advance  follow me! If I retreat  kill me! If I die  avenge me!
— La Rochefoucauld
If I advance  follow me! If I retreat  cut me down! If I die  avenge me!
— Benito Mussolini
Follow me  if I advance  kill me if I retreat  revenge me if I die!
— Ngo Dinh Diem
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
— Lister Sinclair
As for the best leaders  the people do not notice their existence. The next best  the people honour and praise. The next  the people fear  and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done  the people say  'we did it ourselves!'
— Lao-Tzu
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
— Albert Camus
To lead means to direct and to exact  and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin  the generality  and God (the Word).
— Marya Mannes
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
— Jan Masaryk
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says  'I was beaten'  he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism  pride  hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him  indeed  they will be regarded as high qualities  if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
— Charles de Gaulle
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
— Hindu proverb
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
— Maurice Duplessis
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep  than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
— Daniel Defoe
Where there are no tigers  a wildcat is very self-important.
— Korean proverb
'Ah  John A.  John A.  how I love you! How I wish I could trust you!
— Canadian Liberal politician
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said  namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
— Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius  fifty per cent bloody fool.
— Clement Attlee
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
— Walter Lippmann
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau  Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
— Irving Layton
Every woman's man  and every man's woman.
— Julius Caesar
When we think we lead we most are led.
— Lord Byron
An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.
— Latin proverb
If the blind lead the blind  both shall fall into the ditch.
— Matthew
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
— Tacitus
Much learning doth make thee mad.
— Anonymous
All wish to be learned  but no one is willing to pay the price.
— Juvenal
Reading maketh a full man  conference a ready man  and writing an exact man.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Wear your learning like your watch  in a private pocket  and do not pull it out and strike it  merely to show that you have one.
— Lord Chesterfield
And still they gazed  and still the wonder grew  That one small head should carry all it knew.
— Oliver Goldsmith
They have learned nothing  and forgotten nothing.
— Chevalier de Panat
A little learning is a dangerous thing  Drink deep  or taste not the Pierian spring  Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain  And drinking largely sobers us again.
— Alexander Pope
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men learn while they teach.
— Seneca
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.
— Bible
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
— Thomas Hobbes
If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.
— Albanian Proverb
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
— Thomas Fuller
A good man showeth favor  and lendeth.
— Bible
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
— Samuel Johnson
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
— Pascal
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
— Henry David Thoreau
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
— French proverb
Truth is the safest lie.
— Jewish proverb
All men are born truthful  and die liars.
— Vauvenargues
The lie is a condition of life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
— Norman Douglas
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
— Samuel Butler
Who lies for you will lie against you.
— Bosnian proverb
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him  you have no business with consequences  you are to tell the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
I do not mind lying  but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
— Saki
A half-truth is a whole lie.
— Jewish proverb
A liar should have a good memory.
— Quintilian
Oh  don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts  you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts  except figures.
— Sydney Smith
One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
— Anonymous
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence  conservatism  distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William E. Gladstone
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
— Carter Glass
Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
— Jean de la Bruyere
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
— Proverbs
What's mine is yours  and what is yours is mine.
— William Shakespeare
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
— John F. Kennedy
Liberty is always unfinished business.
— Anonymous
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
— Mahatma Gandhi
So free we seem  so fettered fast we are!
— Robert Browning
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited  he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
— John Stuart Mill
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yes  'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer  my friend is blowin' in the wind.
— Bob Dylan
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will  in this crisis  shrink from the service of their country  but he that stands it now  deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny  like hell  is not easily conquered  yet we have this consolation with us  that the harder the conflict  the more glorious the triumph.
— Thomas Paine
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
— Felix Frankfurter
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
— Learned Hand
Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Let the word go forth from this time and place  to friend and foe alike  that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century  tempered by war  disciplined by a hard and bitter peace  proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed  and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know  whether it wishes us well or ill  that we shall pay any price  bear any burden  meet any hardship  support any friend  oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days  nor in the life of this administration  nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms  though arms we need - not as a call to battle  though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle  year in and year out  "rejoicing in hope  patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny  poverty  disease and war itself. And so  my fellow Americans  ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you  but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
— John F. Kennedy
None can love freedom heartily  but good men - the rest love not freedom  but licence.
— John Milton
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
— Henrik Ibsen
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No  where it is dangerous to say No.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
— George Bernard Shaw
For two decades the state has been taking liberties  and these liberties were once ours.
— E. P. Thompson
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
— Eric Hoffer
Liberty  as it is conceived by current opinion  has nothing inherent about it  it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
— Mary McCarthy
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
— Hubert Humphrey
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
— Philip Wylie
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must  like men  undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
— Thomas Paine
Let every nation know  whether it wishes us well or ill  that we shall pay any price  bear any burden  meet any hardship  support any friend  oppose any foe  in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
— John F. Kennedy
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Send these  the homeless  tempest toss'd  to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
— Emma Lazarus
To be truly free  it takes more determination  courage  introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.
— Pietro Bellusch
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
— Viscount Samuel
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
— Harry Weinberger
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others  giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number  but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
— Viktor Frankl
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest  no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves  no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.
— Woodrow Wilson
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
— Cyril James
All free men  wherever they may live  are citizens of Berlin. And therefore  as a free man  I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
— John F. Kennedy
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
— Baron de Montesquieu
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart  the gods are powerless against him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
— Hannah Arendt
When you have robbed a man of everything  he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do  before we risk congratulations.
— Edmund Burke
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
— Cicero
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have  for example  freedom of thought  instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
— Bertrand Barere
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
— James Drummond Burns
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
— John Philpot Curran
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin
Give me liberty  or give me death.
— Patrick Henry
The God who gave us life  gave us liberty at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
Give me your tired  your poor  Your huddled masses  yearning to breathe free  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these  the homeless  tempest tossed  to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
— Emma Lazarus
Give me the liberty to know  to think  to believe  and to utter freely according to conscience  above all other liberties.
— John Milton
0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!
— Mme. Jeanne Roland
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
— William Allen White
Liberty and Union  now and for ever  one and inseparable!
— Daniel Webster
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty  and business liberty  and every other kind of liberty  in the phrase that is common in the sporting world  "A free field and no favor."
— Woodrow Wilson
If anything happens to me  tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way  they'll have to reevaluate me.
— Albert Brooks
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
— Garrison Keillor
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
— Winston Churchill
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work  I want to achieve it through not dying.
— Woody Allen
For my family to go on living the way they are living now  I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.
— Anonymous
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go  they go!
— Jack Benny
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
— John Jensen
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
— Harold Macmillan
I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.
— Red Skelton
The other night  while lying on a couch  I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!
— Anonymous
My mother always said that every time you do a good deed here on Earth  you're storing up a treasure in heaven. Which means Mother Teresa's probably got some beachfront property up there and I'm up to a box of Milk Duds and a Pez dispenser.
— Robert G. Lee