The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860
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The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCTo make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbNo law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbTo live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966