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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

John Ortberg

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Thomas Fuller

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Bryan Procter

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

Kristin Scott Thomas

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

Ewan McGregor

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

E. B. White

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Edmund Waller

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

Eli Wallach

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Ferdinand Foch