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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

– Peter UstinovRate it:

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

– Joseph AddisonRate it:

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

– Joseph AddisonRate it:

Law and justice may attenuate and collapse under the burden of one-sided personal affection, choice, and courtesy, which defines not only the breach; it also describes a crime.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Law and order is a state subject. Please look up the three lists in the Indian constitution. The state list, central list and the concurrent list.

– Naveen PatnaikRate it:

Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty.

– ButlerRate it:

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

– Dr. Jose P. RizalRate it:

Law is mind without reason.

– AristotleRate it:

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

– Wendell PhillipsRate it:

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

– Archbishop IrelandRate it:

Law is order, and good law is good order.

– AristotleRate it:

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

– William BlackstoneRate it:

Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

– John Quincy AdamsRate it:

Law never made men a whit more just.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

– CiceroRate it:

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

– H. L. MenckenRate it:

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

– Charles LambRate it:

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

– Harriet MartineauRate it:

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

– Francis BaconRate it:

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

– Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22Rate it:

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

– Otto von BismarkRate it:

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

– Otto von BismarckRate it:

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

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