Charles Macklin famous quotes

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.
-- Charles Macklin

#Flower #May #Welcome

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
-- Charles Macklin

#Law #Justice #Pockets

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. - Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874.
-- Charles Macklin

#Law #People #Justice

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
-- Charles Macklin

#Law #Action #Offspring

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
-- Charles Macklin

#Tubs #Bottom

My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ***** thick ***** they can.
-- Charles Macklin

#Animal #Land #Lawyer

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
-- Charles Macklin

#Instinct #Mankind #Interest

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!