Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
-
Similar:
| Quote 6457 | Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. |
| Quote 3294 | Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. |
| Quote 12877 | A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. |
| Quote 6693 | Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one i... |
| Quote 3395 | I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wr... |
| Quote 6606 | Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. |
| Quote 3126 | A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. |
| Quote 2891 | No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and incons... |
| Quote 9602 | In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to th... |