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laughing matter serious
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. Ambrose Bierce
latin
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"? Ambrose Bierce
law action natural
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. Ambrose Bierce
law pigs machines
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce
laughter noise inarticulate
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. Ambrose Bierce
law justice mixtures
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice. Ambrose Bierce
law freedom-of-speech criminals
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. Anthony Kennedy
law sight facts
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. Anthony Kennedy
latin school italian
The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve. Anthony Horowitz
laughing people tease
I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people. Anthony Hopkins
laughing water working-for-a-living
You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living. Anthony Hopkins
laughing
I have to laugh at myself. Anthony Kiedis
laziness weak-spots cookies
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. Anthony Hopkins
laughter evil
Evil and laughter cannot co-exist. Alice Thomas Ellis
laughing
Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us. Alice Walker
law lazy lawyer
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln
law errors people
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance. Abraham Lincoln
law may poor
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. Abraham Lincoln
law may way
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. Abraham Lincoln
law roots fire
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind. Abraham Lincoln
law quality lines
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. Abraham Lincoln
law political reverence
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation. Abraham Lincoln
law principles negative
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. Abraham Lincoln
law land people
Laws change; people die; the land remains. Abraham Lincoln
law people doe
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Abraham Lincoln
laughter medicine laughing
Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do. Abraham Lincoln
land yards horizon
They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time. Anna Torv
lasts always-on-the-go junk
I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food. Angie Stone
laughing trying
...I try to laugh at whatever life brings... Ani Difranco
land discipline people
I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land. Andy Goldsworthy
land landscape social
It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape. Andy Goldsworthy
land weather understanding
The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material. Andy Goldsworthy
land government doe
The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states). Andrew Napolitano