"When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 430-34, 1922.

Stephen Johnson Field

#Law Quotes #Judging Quotes #Court Quotes

“Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness.”
“If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And they grow up as young people unable to take anything from a printed page, or they become bored because they haven't discovered the nuances, the differences of opinion, the differences of approach between one author and another. Children can be trusted to skip what they don't like in a book. That's perfectly all right. But to have it all reduced to the supposedly twelve-year-old mind of the adult public is what I object to.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Iâ€™m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.”
“One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.”
“The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.”
“Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.”
“I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.”
“Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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