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.

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

David Steiner

What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming,

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Arundhati Roy

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before, ... This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Legal Maxim

Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong

David Givens

When you start to see the emotional muscles contracting, you know there's some attraction. The muscles of the face are definitely emotional. The upper trapezius muscle is emotional, which causes you to flex your head and your shoulders.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

Bo Burnham

I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.

Billy Gibbons

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.