"To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash"

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Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.177

James Fitzjames Stephen

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Law Quotes

“In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.”
“The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.”
“You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.”
“One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.”
“You know, Boston people are full of sauce.”
“The cartoonistâ€™s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
“When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.”
“Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.”

Source : 1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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