Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa Category: Justice & Law
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth Category: Justice & Law
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906 Category: Justice & Law
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. – Charles Evans Hughes Category: Justice & Law
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. – Hume Cronyn Category: Age
I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on. – Oscar Levant Category: Alcohol
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal Category: Future
