Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Moore

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

Anne Bishop

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Andrew Carnegie

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Andrew Carnegie

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

Andrew Carnegie

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

Alyson Hannigan

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

Anthony Daniels

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Anthony de Mello

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anne Parillaud

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

Andrew Taylor Still

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

Andrew Solomon

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

Andre Norton

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Andre Weil

What is crucial is there be laws.

Andrew Cuomo

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Ambrose Bierce

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Ambrose Bierce

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

Ambrose Bierce

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Ambrose Bierce

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Anthony Kennedy

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

Anthony Kennedy

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.

Abraham Lincoln

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

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

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Abraham Lincoln

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.