Quotesdtb.com
Home
Authors
Quotes of the day
Top quotes
Topics
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But the guy who pretends he's enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake.
Al Capone
Related topics
authority
crook
frankness
guy
law
matter
snake
something
swell
steals
Related quotes
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
G. K. Chesterton
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Helen Rowland
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer