Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

Edward Gibbon

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Edward Gibbon

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

Edward Gibbon

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

Edward Gibbon

A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

Edward Gibbon

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

Edmond de Goncourt

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Edith Piaf

I can die now. I've lived twice.

Edith Piaf

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

Edith Sitwell

In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature ...

Edith Wharton

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Ed Asner

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

Earl Wilson

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Ed Begley, Jr.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

Ed Begley, Jr.

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

Earl Warren

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Earl Warren

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Earl Warren

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Earl Warren

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Eartha Kitt

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

Dawn Powell

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

David Wallace

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

David Walliams

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

David Ricardo

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

David Ricardo

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

David Ricardo

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce...

David Ricardo

If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Hyde Pierce

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

David Icke

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

David Hockney

Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.