![The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-framers-of-the-constitution-created-the-federally-protected-right-of.jpg)
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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.
silence argument weak
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. Alan Watts
silence answers critics
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Aiden Wilson Tozer
silence building crescendo
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence tragedy might
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence trying remember
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things. David Shapiro
silence silent minutes
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought. Byron Katie
lips doe worship
If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.
lips actors tough
It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on. David Walton
lips always-smile problem
my lips never know my problem they just always smile Charlie Chaplin
lips cups slips
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. Aristotle
lips
She's gorgeous. She's got lips like Angelina Jolie. Frank Black
lipstick looked
When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better. Bobbi Brown
lips meet parting pass peaceful shall thee word
May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more! William Cowper
lips ready turns
But when her lips were ready for his pay,He winks, and turns his lips another way. William Shakespeare
lips grazing connecting
Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting. Craig Thompson