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law knowing shy
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 Dickens
law justice water
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
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
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.
law firsts revolution
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.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
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.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
social-values kind limitation
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. Dorothy L. Sayers
social-values vision culture
My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture. David Palmer
social-values talent redeeming
I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value. David Letterman
social-values desire needs
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. Louis D. Brandeis
social-values recycling boxes
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. Ellen Goodman
social-values courtesy manners
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. Emily Post
social-values actors feels
As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value. Matt Damon
social-values racism reconstruction
Work is valued by the social value of the worker. Gloria Steinem
social-values ancient confidentiality
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value. Kay Redfield Jamison
unfortunate conditions
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. Diana Gabaldon
unfortunate-things childhood fiction
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction. Heather O'Neill
unfortunate fastidious
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. Jean de La Fontaine
unfortunate-things canada building
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada. Ernst Zundel
unfortunate-things trying limits
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new. Leo Buscaglia
unfortunate-things people can-do
People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things. Joseph Campbell
unfortunate-things rewards appetite
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. Phyllis Bottome
unfortunate-things finals unfortunate
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. Marie Dressler