Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Dickens

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Charles Dickens

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bill Maher

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

Khalid Malik

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

Tom Scott

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

Edward Lazear

We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.

Bertrand Russel

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

George Herbert

Folly growes without watering.

Jean de La Fontaine

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]