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The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1971

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

—William Empson, 1928

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904