"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Philosophical Quotes #Law Quotes #Execution Quotes

“Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.”

Source : Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7
“Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.”
“In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.”

Source : George Weigel (2002). “The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored”, p.164, Gracewing Publishing
“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”
“O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz, “All Night, All Night”
“The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet”

Source : "Ye Gods!". Book by Tom Holt, 1992.
“Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.”
“Sometimes God allows us to explore the 'whys' of His instructions. Other times He wants us to obey 'because He said so.' Has God asked you to obey in a specific matter that still awaits your obedient response?”

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