Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

Martin Luther

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

Martin Luther

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

Martin Luther

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Martin Luther

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Martin Luther

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Martin Luther

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

Martin Luther

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

Martin Luther

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

Martin Luther

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Martin Luther

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Martin Luther

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

Mark Strand

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Steyn

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

Mark Steyn

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Mark Noble

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

Nicholas Pileggi

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

Moses

I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

Moses Mendelssohn

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Moses Mendelssohn

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Missy Elliot

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

P. J. O'Rourke

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

P. G. Wodehouse

I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

P. G. Wodehouse

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

P. G. Wodehouse

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

Ovid

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Ovid

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

Ovid

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Ovid

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.