Solon Quotes
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon
Quotes to Explore
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue
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I think he genuinely meant it. I think he really wants to do the right things to escape this demon that's got him.
Gary Sheffield
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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
Aristotle
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
Thomas Hobbes
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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
John Varvatos
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
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Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
William Shakespeare
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon
