top of page
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Standard 
 Customized
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Exlpore more Law quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The laws of men are not infallible."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment "Thou shall not kill.But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22"23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people."

Explore more quotes by Honore de Balzac

Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
Quote_1.png
Honore de Balzac
"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."
bottom of page