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La vache qui rit est jolie.
(Laughing cows are pretty.) |
| Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial
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| fire, called conscience.
George Washington |
| Lack of capability is usually disguised by lack of interest. |
| Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw |
| Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |
Laissez faire, laissez passer.
(Let it be, let it pass.)
Attrib. to
Francois Quesnay |
| Lame duck: A politician one step removed from being a dead
duck. Edmund H. Volkart |
| Language originated before philosophy, and that's what wrong with
philosophy. George C. Lichtenberg |
| Last guys don't finish nice. |
| Last night everything on your desk was stolen and replaced with
an exact duplicate. |
| Latet anguis in herba. (A snake lurks in the grass.)
Virgil (Publius
Vergilius Maro) |
| Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either. |
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 |
| Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it
principally in one spot. Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) |
| Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best
ending for one. Oscar Wilde |
| Laughter: An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the
features and accompanied by inarticulate noise.
Ambrose Bierce |
| Laughter: The no side-effect tranquilizer. |
| Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath
put asunder. Charles C. Colton |
| Law has nothing to do with justice.
Anonymous |
| Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a harpy, that devours
everything. John Arbuthnot |
| Law is but an heathen word for power.
Daniel Defoe |
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Law is the crystallized prejudices of the community.
Anonymous |
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Law of Communications: The result of improved and
enlarged communications is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. |
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Law of gravity: The only law everybody observes.
Evan Esar |
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Lawful: Compatible with the will of a judge having
jurisdiction. Ambrose Bierce |
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Laws are dumb in war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons viz. by
those that make them, by those that execute them, and by those that
suffer if they break them. Lord Halifax |
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Laws are like spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them
they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon |
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Laws are silent in times of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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Laws do not persuade because they threaten.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom
executed. Benjamin Franklin |
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Laws were made to be broken.
John Wilson |
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Lawsuit: The most expensive part of an attorney's wardrobe, used for
appearances in courts and banks. Edmund H. Volkart |
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Lawyer: A person professionally trained in the difference between a
jury and perjury, and skilled in the art of using both to best
advantage. Edmund H. Volkart |
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Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Ambrose Bierce |
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Lawyer's houses are built on the heads of fools.
George Herbert |
| Lawyers and painters can soon change black to white. Danish proverb |
| Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. Martial (Marcus
Valarius Martialis) |
| Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity
be chosen from themselves. Charles C. Colton |
| Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance in the law is not
punished. Jeremy Bentham |
| Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of their browbeating. James G.
Huneker |
| Lawyers generally prefer not to rush things. Justice Kirby |
| Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witness: a
reluctant witness, and a too willing one. Charles Dickens |
| Lawyers run the world. Len Deighton |
| Laziness is a good deal like money; the more a man has of it the more
he seems to want. Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) |
| Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| Learn all the rules, every one of them, so that you will know how to
break them. Irvin S. Cobb |
| Learn good things - the bad ones will teach you by themselves. Russian
proverb |
| Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. |
| Learning at some schools is like drinking from a firehose. |
| Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt |
| Learning isn't a means to an end it is an end in itself. Robert A.
Heinlein |
| Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is
perilous. Confucius |
| Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose
Bierce |
| Least said is sooner disavowed. Ambrose Bierce |
| Leave it to the coward to make a religion of his cowardice by preaching
humility. George Bernard Shaw |
| Lecturer: One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and
his faith in your patience. Ambrose Bierce |
| Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. |
| Legacy: A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of
tears. Ambrose Bierce |
| Lend money to a bad debtor and he will hate you. |
Les absents ont toujours tort.
(The absent are always in the
wrong.) English proverb (or Philippe N. dit Destouches) |
| Less is more. Robert Browning |
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view. John Gay |
| Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Publilius
Syrus |
| Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm
vanishes from his heart. Elbert Hubbard |
| Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent. William
Shakespeare [Much Ado About Nothing] |
| Let every man who pants for fame select his own style of pant and go
ahead. Edgar W. Nye |
| Let He who taketh the Plunge Remember to return it by Tuesday. |
| Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. |
| Let sleeping dogs lie. Charles Dickens |
| Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have
written well. Alexander Pope |
| Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent
with inward peace and harmony. Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost
always to corrupt them. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (Francois M.
Arouet) |
| Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love. Ovid (Publius
Ovidius Naso) |
| Let the sword decide after stratagem has failed. Arabian proverb |
| "Let us agree not to step on each
other's feet," said the cock to the horse.
--English proverb |
| Let us be grateful to Adam our benefactor. He cut us out of
the "blessing" of idleness and won for us the "curse" of labor. Mark
Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| Let us be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow
the money to do it with. Artemus Ward (Charles F. Browne) |
| Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. Bible, Isaiah 22:13 |
| Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino |
| Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to
negotiate. John F. Kennedy |
| Let us remember that ours is a nation of lawyers and order. |
| Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed. Mark
Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still
achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that
if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men
will say, 'This was their finest hour.' Sir Winston Churchill |
| Let your conscience be your guide. Alexander Pope |
| Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth,
that there are no gains without pains. Adlai Stevenson |
| Lettuce, like conversation, requires a good deal of oil, to avoid
friction and keep the company smooth. Charles D. Warner |
| Leveraging always beats prototyping. |
| Levity is the soul of wit. Melville D. Landon |
| Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Samuel
Johnson |
| Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. Oliver Herford |
| Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission. Ambrose Bierce |
| Liberation is not deliverance. Victor Hugo |
Liberavi animam meam.
(I have freed my soul.) St. Bernard |
| Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite! Unknown (predates French Revolution) |
| Liberty is its own reward. Woodrow Wilson |
| Liberty plucks justice by the nose. William Shakespeare [Measure for
Measure] |
| Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. Ambrose
Bierce |
| Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered
to date. |
| Life and liberty are safe only when congress is in recess. |
| Life as we know it doesn't exist. |
| Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived
forwards. Soren A. Kierkegaard |
| Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone. John Cougar Mellencamp |
| Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its
object. Hegel |
| Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. Christopher
Morley |
| Life is a game of bridge - and you've just been finessed. |
| Life is a horse: Either you ride it, or it rides you. |
| Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire to
change his bed. Pierre C. Baudelaire |
Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, but now I
know it. John Gay |
| Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. |
| Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string. |
| Life is an end itself, and the only question as to whether it is
worth it is whether you have enough of it. Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes |
| Life is difficult because it is non-linear. |
| Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to
accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris |
| Life is fleeting - and therefore endurable. Alexander Chase |
| Life is full of little surprises, and you are one of them. |
| Life is half spent before one knows what life is. French proverb |
| Life is like a diaper - short and loaded. |
| Life is like an analogy. |
| Life is like an onion, which one peels crying. French proverb |
| Life is like an onion: you peel of layer after layer and then you find
there is nothing in it. James G. Huneker |
| Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles
predominating. O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) |
| Life is not a dress rehearsal. |
| Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler |
| Life is only understood backward, but must be lived forward. |
| Life is short and the art long. Hippocrates |
| Life is short, but ills make it seem long. Publilius Syrus |
| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises. Samuel Butler |
| Life is the childhood of our immortality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Life is the urge to ecstasy. |
Life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we
love
Doth work like madness in the brain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Life is too short for men to take it seriously. George Bernard Shaw |
| Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John
Lennon |
| Life without a friend is death without a witness. Spanish proverb |
| Life without caffeine is stimulating enough. |
| Life's aspirations come in the guise of children. Rabindranath Tagore |
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his
hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury. William Shakespeare [Macbeth] |
| Life's perhaps the only riddle that we shrink from giving up. William
S. Gilbert |
| Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes
hasten to their end. William Shakespeare |
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, -
Now green in youth,
now withering on the ground;
Another race the following spring
supplies:
They fall successive, and successive rise. Homer |
| Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made
sense from things she found in gift shops. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. |
| Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. William Shakespeare
[Sonnets] |
| LIMBERICK It's time to make love. Douse the glim.
The
fireflies twinkle and dim.
The stars lean together
Like birds of a feather,
And the loin lies down with the limb. Conrad Aiken |
| Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug. Joel C.
Harris |
| Lisp: To call a spade a thpade. Oliver Herford |
| Litigant: A person about to give up his skin in the hope of retaining
his bones. Ambrose Bierce |
| Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from
the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. Frank M. ("Kin")
Hubbard |
| Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as
sausage. Ambrose Bierce |
| Live a clean, healthy life and you will soon die of boredom. |
| Live and scratch - when you're dead, the itching will stop. Russian
proverb |
| Live every day like it is your last ... One day you'll be right. |
| Live every day of your life as though it were your last. Marcus
Aurelius Antininus |
| Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do
so. Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) |
| Living in Hollywood is like living in a bowl of granola. What ain't
fruits and nuts is flakes. |
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
when she
saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one! Anonymous |
Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That time and Fate of all
their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And
one by one crept silently to Rest. XXI, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1st
Ed.) |
| Logic doesn't apply to the real world. Marvin Minsky |
| Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree, that smells AWFUL. |
| Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with
the limitations and incapacities of the human
misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce |
| Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. |
| Loneliness: The dark shadow of the bright side of solitude. Edmund H.
Volkart |
| Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joys. Stanislaus I of
Poland |
| Long computations that yield zero are probably all for naught. |
| Long quaffing maketh a short life. John Lyly |
| Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains. Russian proverb |
| Look before you leap. Samuel Butler |
| Look down if you would know how high you stand. Yiddish proverb |
| Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. Publilius Syrus |
Look to the blowing Rose about us - "Lo,
Laughing," she says, "into the
world I blow,
At once the silken tassel of my Purse
Tear, and its
Treasure on the Garden throw." XIV, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
| Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages
with the ingredients clearly labeled. Helen Hudson |
| Loquacity: A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his
tongue when you wish to talk. Ambrose Bierce |
| Lord Falkland's Rule: When it is not necessary to make a decision, it
is necessary not to make a decision. |
| Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan
Swift |
| Lord, what fools these mortals be! William Shakespeare [A Midsummer
Night's Dream] |
| Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Frank M. ("Kin") |