Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Quotations
Law
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
-Michel De Montaigne
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them.
-Steve Maraboli
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
"The Canadian Bar Journal"
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
