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Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]
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Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
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O my lord, Press not a falling man too far! ‘Tis virtue His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
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O’Brian’s Law: If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.
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O’Brien’s Law: Nothing is ever done for the right reasons.
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Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; All things in heaven and earth do her homage – the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power
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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
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Old father antic the law.
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Olivier’s Creed: Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
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Once (says an Author; where, I need not say) Two Trav’lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew strong, While Scale in hand Dame Justice pass’d along. Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws. Explain’d the matter, and would win the cause, Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right, Takes, open, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife remov’d so rarely well, ‘There take’ (says Justice), ‘take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you: ‘Twas a fat oyster–live in peace–Adieu.’
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One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.
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One of the Seven was wont to say: ‘That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.’
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Osborn’s Law: Variables won’t, constants aren’t.
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Ostrich’s Principle: Ignore any bugging problem; it will be solved as soon as people stop talking about it.
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O’Toole’s Commentary: Murphy was an optimist.
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
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Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients’ causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
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Parkins’ Premise: Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more.
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Parkinson’s Law (a/k/a Thousand Principle): Any corporation with a minimum one thousand (1,000) work force becomes an autonomous entity, in which enough administrative paperwork is generated to make external contacts superfluous.
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