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.

Charles Schumer

...the only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers...

Chuck Robb

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

Chuck Todd

California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.

Sylvester Stallone

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

Michael Nutter

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Mitt Romney

I supported the assault weapon ban.

Mitt Romney

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

Joe Lhota

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

William J. Clinton

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,

Alan Autry

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alaina Huffman

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.