As a man is friended,
So the law is ended. [ Proverb ]
Necessity has no law. [ Proverb ]
Law dies; books never. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Love rules without law. [ Italian Proverb ]
The law of commonsense. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Necessity knows no law. [ Constance ]
Old father antic the law. [ William Shakespeare ]
Custom is observed as law. [ Law ]
Custom is the law of fools. [ Vanburgh ]
All things obey fixed laws. [ Lucretius ]
Fear the beadle of the law. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Much law but little justice. [ Proverb ]
Order is heaven's first law. [ Pope ]
The law succors the ignorant. [ Law Maxim ]
Only law can give us freedom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The law is silent during war. [ Cicero ]
Agree, for the law is costly. [ Proverb ]
One suit of law breeds twenty. [ Proverb ]
Custom is held to be as a law. [ Law Maxim ]
Petty laws breed great crimes. [ Ouida ]
The first great law is to obey. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
Time stands with impartial law. [ Manilius ]
Unkindness has no remedy at law. [ Proverb ]
Law is the protector of the weak. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Alas, the incertitude of the law! [ Burke ]
The law is the friend of the weak. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Liberty and law march hand in hand. [ Adams ]
Ignorance of the law excuses nobody. [ Law ]
Law governs man, and reason the law. [ Proverb ]
Ancient custom is always held as law. [ Law ]
Where law ends, there tyranny begins. [ Earl of Chatham ]
Laws are silent in the midst of arms. [ John Bate ]
Laws are the silent assessors of God. [ W. R. Alger ]
The people's safety is the law of God. [ James Otis ]
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. [ Louis the Fourteenth ]
Laws can discover sin, but not remove. [ Milton ]
The will of the people is the best law. [ U. S. Grant ]
Possession is eleven points of the law. [ Proverb ]
Possession is eleven points in the law. [ Colley Gibber ]
Who loves law, dies either mad or poor. [ Middleton ]
Even the gods above are subject to law. [ Ovid ]
The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. [ Law Maxim ]
No good lawyer ever goes to law himself. [ Italian Proverb ]
The law often allows what honor forbids. [ Saurin ]
Self-preservation is nature's first law. [ Proverb ]
The act of the law does wrong to no man. [ Law Max ]
All men are equal before the natural law. [ Law Maxim ]
Necessity knows no law except to conquer. [ Publius Syrus ]
The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]
Habit is the deepest law of human nature. [ Carlyle ]
Necessity is ever stronger than human law. [ Dionysius ]
The law of the wise is a fountain of life. [ Bible ]
Be you never so high, the law is above you. [ Proverb ]
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. [ Proverb ]
Christianity is part of the law of England. [ Lord Eldon ]
God gives the will; necessity gives the law. [ Danish Proverb ]
The law often permits what honour prohibits. [ Saurin ]
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer. [ Aaron Hill ]
One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. [ Pope ]
There is a higher law than the constitution. [ W. H. Seward ]
A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. [ Cicero ]
'Tis the eternal law.
That first in beauty should be first in might. [ Keats ]
The law, - it has honored us, may we honor it. [ Daniel Webster ]
A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law. [ Proverb ]
The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers.
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw.
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer. [ Longfellow ]
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. [ Goldsmith ]
The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One may tell lies without the danger of the law. [ Proverb ]
The law is not the same at morning and at night. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. [ Law Maxim ]
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law. [ J. G. Holland ]
Lawless are they that make their wills their law. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. [ Joseph Story ]
It is to one's honour to combine justice with law. [ Motto ]
Be a father to Virtue, but a father in-law to Vice. [ Proverb ]
Progress is the law of life - man is not man as yet. [ Browning ]
Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will. [ Whittier ]
The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fortune. [ Proverb ]
Necessity imposes law, but does not herself receive it. [ Publius Syrus ]
A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of. [ Mrs. Balfour ]
A promise against law or duty, is void in its own nature. [ Proverb ]
No law reaches it, but all rightminded people observe it. [ Chamfort ]
They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!
Liberty unregulated by law, soon degenerates into anarchy. [ M. Fillmore ]
The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give. [ Luther ]
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. [ Moleschott ]
It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law. [ Mosea Crowell ]
The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy. [ Martin Luther ]
The strictest laws sometimes become the severest injustice. [ Terence ]
Liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits. [ Law ]
Of all men, Adam was the happiest - he had no mother-in-law. [ P. Parfait ]
There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. [ German Proverb ]
Expediency is a law of nature.
The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. [ Beaconsfield ]
It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. [ Seneca ]
The mother-in-law, remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law. [ Proverb ]
No law can be finally sacred to me but the law of my own nature. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods, as prescribed by law. [ Pythagoras ]
An indifferent agreement, is better than carrying a cause at law. [ Proverb ]
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. [ Lydia Maria Child ]
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. [ Tacitus ]
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring! [ Milton ]
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe. [ Ben Jonson ]
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
As adversaries in law, strive mightily; but eat and drink as friends. [ William Shakespeare ]
In all things, but particularly in law, regard is to be had to equity. [ Law ]
Things confirmed by long practice and usage have all the force of law. [ Hooker ]
In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. [ Froude ]
Oaths were not purposed more than law to keep the good and just in awe. [ Samuel Butler ]
He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back without kindred. [ Proverb ]
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. [ Southey ]
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. [ Beaconsfield ]
He that would thrive by law, must fee his enemy's counsel as well as his own. [ Proverb ]
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. [ Thoreau ]
Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, - a harpy that devours everything. [ Swift ]
Decency is the least of all laws, yet the law which is most strictly observed. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. [ Sir John Powell ]
In a thousand pound's worth of law there is not a shilling's worth of pleasure. [ Proverb ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law. [ Pascal ]
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. [ St. Paul ]
To marry is solemnly to submit one's liberty to law, and one's welfare to caprice.
With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. [ Law Maxim ]
A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth His moral law. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. [ Colton ]
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. [ Milton ]
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things - law and war. [ Bailey ]
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. [ Coke ]
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. [ Emerson ]
A litigant at law should have three bags: one of papers, one of money, and one of patience. [ Proverb ]
Necessity is the only real sovereign in the world, the only despot for whom there is no law. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates. [ Solon ]
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law of the world, and are afraid of the world's tongue. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. [ Herder ]
Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land. [ John Ruskin ]
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. [ Heine ]
Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Equity judgeth with lenity, laws with extremity. In all moral cases, the reason of the law is the law. [ Walter Scott ]
These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws so far as we can read them. [ Froude ]
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy, but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. [ Joubert ]
Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. [ George Eliot ]
Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. [ Bancroft ]
It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]
Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. [ La Bruyere ]
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe, - human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. [ James A. Garfield ]
Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]
What is a philosopher? One who opposes nature to law, reason to usage, conscience to opinion, and his judgment to error. [ Chamfort ]
It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. [ Colton ]
Who has a breast so pure but some uncleanly apprehensions keep leets and law-days and in session sit with meditations lawful? [ William Shakespeare ]
Self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralizing to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. [ Cicero ]
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded. [ Montaigne ]
Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all men. [ Holland ]
In our judgment of human transactions the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. [ Whately ]
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. [ Seneca ]
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. [ Pythagoras ]
Revenge, which, like envy, is an instinct of justice, does but take into its own hands the execution of that natural law which precedes the social. [ Chatfield ]
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to reenact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intellect. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. [ Selden ]
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]
Famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. [ William Shakespeare ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden underfoot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? [ Mrs. Stowe ]
The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. [ G. D. Boardman ]
If you make a law against dancing-masters imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master. [ Goldsmith ]
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused: the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [ Propertius ]
There is but one law for all; namely, that law which governs all law, - the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations. [ Burke ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. [ Thackeray ]
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. [ John Ruskin ]
The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing the letter of the law against the equity is the most insupportable. [ L'Estrange ]
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. [ Goldsmith ]
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. [ Lowell ]
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty. [ J. G. Holland ]
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. [ Johnson ]
A people that studies its own past, and rejoices in the nation's proud memories, is likely to be a patriotic people, the bulwark of law, and the courageous champion of right in the hour of need. [ Joseph Anderson ]
There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by god. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]
A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]
Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there. [ Carlyle ]
There are strange coincidences in life: they occur so a propos that the strongest minds are impressed, and ask if that mysterious and inexorable fatality in which the ancients believed, is not really the law that governs the world. [ Alfred Mercier ]
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash - for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. [ Colton ]
Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. [ John Ruskin ]
A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law. [ A. E. Kittredge ]
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. [ Cicero ]
Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]
Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia
The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]