Living Law

Famous quotes containing the words living and/or law:

    “risk is full: every living thing in
    siege: the demand is life, to keep life: the small
    white blacklegged egret, how beautiful, quietly stalks and spears
    the shallows, darts to shore
    to stab—”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    “The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
    And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)