Famous quotes containing the words law courts, law, courts and/or building:
“You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But O, young beauty of the woods,
Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds;
Lest Flora, angry at thy crime
To kill her infants in their prime,
Do quickly make the example yours;
And ere we see,
Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)