3,047 Quotes About Law

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.