Famous quotes containing the word lawful:
“What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.”
—Empedocles 484424 B.C., Greek philosopher. The Presocratics, p. 142, ed. Philip Wheelwright, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. (1960)
“Not all that tempts your wandring eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters, gold.”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
“All things are lawful there that may delight
Nature or unrestrained appetite.
Like and enjoy, to will and act is one;
We only sin when loves rites are not done.”
—Thomas Carew (15891639)
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