Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna O'Brien

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

Edna Ferber

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

Edna Ferber

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Bobby Jindal

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

Bobby Jindal

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

Bobby Jindal

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

Bobby Jindal

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Benjamin Franklin

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Benjamin Franklin

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

Benjamin Franklin

What can laws do without morals?

Benjamin Franklin

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who laugh often never grow old.

Benjamin Franklin

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Laws without morals are in vain.

Benjamin Franklin

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Barbara Tuchman

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Avril Lavigne

I'm gonna live today like this is my last day.. :)

Arthur Goldberg

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Arthur Erickson

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Arthur Eddington

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Arthur Eddington

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Arthur Eddington

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Arthur Conan Doyle

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

Arthur Balfour

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.