Famous quotes containing the words content and/or laws:
“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense—but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd—for sense cannot be counterfeited.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)