The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971
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All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbGood men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbLaws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765