Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791
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To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbThe law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65