Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander MacLaren

The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.

Alexander McCall Smith

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

Alexander Pope

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

Alexander Pope

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

Alexander Pope

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Alexander Pope

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

Alexander Pope

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Alexander Pope

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

And make each day a critic on the last.

Alexander Pope

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Alexander Pope

The laughers are a majority.

Alexander Pope

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

Alexander Pope

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

E. P. Thompson

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.

E. Stanley Jones

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

E. O. Wilson

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

E. O. Wilson

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

E. O. Wilson

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,

E. O. Wilson

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

E. O. Wilson

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

E. O. Wilson

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

E. O. Wilson

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

E. O. Wilson

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

E. M. Forster

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

E. M. Forster

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Dreama Walker

I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh.

Drew Carey

I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.

Drew Carey

The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

Drew Carey

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Drew Carey

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

Drew Barrymore

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.