Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Chad Harbach

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

Billy Joel

Only the good die young.

Ed Westwick

Live fast, die young.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Benjamin Franklin

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Desi Arnaz

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

Diane von Furstenberg

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Dhirubhai Ambani

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

Brigitte Bardot

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Charles Kuralt

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

Aidan Chambers

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Bernie Mac

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

David Tudor

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.