Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Friedman

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

Mike DeWine

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

Nancy Pearcey

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."

Muqtada al Sadr

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.

Muqtada al Sadr

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?

Kelly Stables

I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.

Julian Baggini

Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.

Julian Baggini

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Julian Baggini

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Julian Assange

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Julian Assange

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

Julian Assange

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Julian Barnes

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

Ken Kesey

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Katie Price

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Kristan Higgins

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Kevin O'Leary

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Mark Twain

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

Mark Twain

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Mark Twain

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Mark Twain

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

Mark Twain

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Mark Twain

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Mark Twain

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Mark Twain

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

Mark Twain

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Mark Twain

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

Mary Baker Eddy

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Martin Gardner

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

Marquis de Sade

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?