Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

Rod Parsley

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.

Rod McKuen

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

Robin McKinley

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

Wilbur Smith

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Whoopi Goldberg

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

Saint Augustine

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Saint Augustine

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Saint Augustine

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Saint Augustine

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Saint Augustine

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Saint Augustine

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

Saint Augustine

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

Saint Augustine

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Saint Augustine

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Saint Augustine

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Yasser Arafat

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Will Rogers

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Will Rogers

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

Will Rogers

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

Will Rogers

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

Will Rogers

The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.

Will Rogers

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

Will Rogers

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

Will Rogers

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.

Will Rogers

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

Will Rogers

Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.

Rudyard Kipling

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

Rudyard Kipling

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.

W. Clement Stone

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.