Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

Eddy Arnold

Last word in lonesome is me.

Auberon Waugh

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

Aubrey Plaza

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Aristotle

What we expect, that we find.

Aristotle

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

Aristotle

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

Aristotle

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

Aristotle

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

Aristotle

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Aristotle

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

Aristotle

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

Aristotle

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

Aristotle

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

Aristotle

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

Aristotle

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Aristotle

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

Aristotle

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Aristotle

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

Aristotle

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.

Ben Kingsley

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

Ben Kingsley

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

We're going for big laughs and big talk value.

We're going by the law and the mother's wishes and the wishes of the child.

We're shooting more consistently than we were last year. We just have to keep working on it.

We're set up for a nice little rally, however, how long it can last is unclear.

We're looking at trains as a primary way to move large means of people.

We're excited. And we're still mad we lost on Saturday. It reminds me a lot of last year (when the Vikings lost to Centennial then went undefeated the rest of the way). We want to do that again.

Ric Keller

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

Alexis de Tocqueville

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.