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Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

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

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100

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

—James Joyce, 1939

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

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

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966

War has silenced all laws.

—Lucan, c. 65