Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

William Shakespeare

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

William Shakespeare

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

William Shakespeare

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

William Shakespeare

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

William Shakespeare

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

William Shakespeare

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

William Shakespeare

though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy

William Shakespeare

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still I am King of those.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Sergei Lavrov

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Le Corbusier

By law, all buildings should be white.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Dean Stanley

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

English Proverbs

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

William Shakespeare

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

Bill Watterson

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

John Vanbrugh

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

John Steinbeck

Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.

John Steinbeck

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

John Bonham

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

Peggy Lee

You cant beat The Beatles, you join em.

Carson Kressley

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

Charles Bukowski

Let' em learn or let' em die