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.

Charles Simonyi

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Spurgeon

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Charles Spurgeon

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Alan Parsons

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Alan Alda

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Chris Colfer

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

Chogyam Trungpa

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Chinua Achebe

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Damien Hirst

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Henry Vaughan

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Mel Brooks

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Karl Kraus

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Gregory Maguire

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

J. K. Rowling

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

J. K. Rowling

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.