Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

Oleg Cassini

A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.

Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has no law.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Norman Vincent Peale

Expect the best and get it.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

Emile M. Cioran

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Emile M. Cioran

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

Emile M. Cioran

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Ellen Goodman

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Ellen Glasgow

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

Ellen Glasgow

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Ellen G. White

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

Ellen DeGeneres

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

Eric S. Raymond

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Eric S. Raymond

and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++).

Eric Schmidt

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

Eric Allin Cornell

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Marcel Proust

A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Joseph Barbera

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

Joseph Addison

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Joseph Addison

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Joseph Addison

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Joseph Addison

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.