Quotes with lawful

  • If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
  • Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
  • Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Francis Bacon For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Josh Billings Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Anne Hutchinson If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Bob Ney In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anton Chekhov Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Abraham Cowley Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Robert E. Lee Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Immanuel Kant Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ian McEwan What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.
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    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Butler When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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