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1

They laugh that win.

Othello. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 124.

(See also first quotation)

2

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disoroportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Sir Philip Sidney—The Defence of Poesy.

3

Laugh and be fat.

John Taylor—Title of a Tract. (1615)

4

For still the World prevail'd, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm Philosopher can scorn.

Thomson—The Seasons. Autumn. L. 233.

5

Fight Virtue's cause, stand up in Wit's defence,
Win us from vice and laugh us into sense.

Tickell—On the Prospect of Peace. St. 38.

6

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox—Solitude. Claimed by Col. John A. Joyce, who had it engraved on his tombstone.

7

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
And every Grin, so merry, draws one out. <poem>
 | author = John Wolcot
 | cog = (Peter Pindar)
 | work = Expostidatory Odes. Ode 15.
 | topic = Laughter
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 8
 | text = The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 757.
 | place =
 | note =
 | topic = Laughter
 | page = 430
}}
 

LAUREL

Lauras Nobilis

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 9
 | text = <poem>The laurel-tree grew large and strong,
Its roots went searching deeply down;
It split the marble walls of Wrong,
And blossomed o'er the Despot's crown.

Richard Hengist Horne—The Laurel Seed.

10

This flower that smells of honey and the sea,
White laurustine, seems in my hand to be
A white star made of memory long ago
Lit in the heaven of dear times dead to me.

Swinburne—Relics.

LAW

11

Ove son leggi,
Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Alfieri—Virginia. II. 1.

12

Law is king of all.

Henry Alford—School of the Heart. Lesson 6.

13

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will
like them only entangle and hold the poor and
weak, while the rich and powerful will easily
break through them.
Anacharsis to Solon when writing his laws.
 | seealso = (See also Solon for answer; and Bacon, Shenstone, Swift)
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 14
 | text = Law is a bottomless pit.
J. Arbuthnot—Title of a Pamphlet. (About 1700)
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 15
 | text = One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."
Bacon—Apothegms. No. 181.
 | seealso = (See also Anacharsis)
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 16
 | text = All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
 | author = Bacon
 | work = Essays on Empire.
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 17
 | text = There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
 | author = Burke
 | work = Impeachment of Warren Hastings.
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 18
 | text = I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
 | author = Burke
 | work = Speech on the Conciliation of America.
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 19
 | text = A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
 | author = Burke
 | work = Vindication of Natural Society.
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 20
 | text = The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
 | author = Bishop Burnet
 | work = History of His Own Times.
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 21
 | text = 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.
 | author = Burton
 | work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
 | place = Democritus to the Reader.
 | topic = Law
 | page = 430
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 22
 | text = <poem>Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.

Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I. L. 515.

23

Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.

Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto II. L. 359.

24

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

Byron—The Curse of Minerva. St. 15.

25

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Julius Cesar. Plutarch—Life of Cæsar.

(See also Cicero, Marius, Montaigne)

26

Who to himself is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

George Chapman—Bussy d'Ambois. Act II. Sc. 1.

27

Jus gentium.

The law of nations.

Cicero—De Officiis. III. 17.