From his silence a man's consent is inferred.


Decimus Laberius

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Silence is the door of consent.
BERBER PROVERB
Silence implies consent.
PROVERB
Silence gives consent.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Silence gives consent
POPE BONIFACE VIII
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
THOMAS HOBBES
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
He who is first in time has the prior right.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
Hard cases make bad law.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT
Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES
All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do no...
ROXANE GAY
Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
POPE BONIFACE VIII
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE
A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT
One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB
If you ask me to kiss you, I will,” he says.
His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
PLATO
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN
Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, ...
C.S. LEWIS
Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language—and
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER
In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Mayor Wynn is not alone in his silence and backroom dealings as this irreversible train-wreck happen...
BILL BUNCH
If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by...
SIMON KUZNETS
For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN
Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE
The legend of Decimus Croome seemed to expand like a parasitic beast feeding off the lifeblood of th...
KEVIN PURDY
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet c...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY
To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
Sexual assault is any sexual contact with someone without his or her consent.
COREY COOK
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB
A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT
Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
(This) will upgrade the resources from the 'inferred' to the 'indicated' category necessary to advan...
WALTER BROWN
Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES
Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT
It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of g...
NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR
What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
UNKNOWN
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.
CLANCY NACHT
The assumption of choice leads to the conclusion of consent, but choice and consent are erroneous co...
RACHEL MORAN
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democ...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON
Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The ...
RONALD A. HEIFETZ
Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
JENSON BUTTON
Silence is an ornament which is visible from inside. (Le silence est une parure - Qui se voit de l'i...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT
A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY
A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
BOAZ AKUDE
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to...
BOB MCDONNELL
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon ...
J.K. ROWLING
From the fact that I had permitted them to announce My arrival for the function, they could well hav...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Your consent is your character.
SHANNON L. ALDER
To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal con...
DONALD RUMSFELD
The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words
GREEK PROVERB
If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIP BROOKS
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE
Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE

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What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
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The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
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No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
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He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
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He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
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He who is first in time has the prior right.
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An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
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He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
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He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
DECIMUS LABERIUS
Hard cases make bad law.
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No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
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It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.
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The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.
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As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.
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Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidq...
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Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
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If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
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It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas....
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A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat...
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. [Lat., Turpe quid ...
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The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
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Fear not death; fear not having lived.
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A herd followi...
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Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing ...
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
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I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
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You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
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By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
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Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
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Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
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He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
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Satire is what closes Saturday night.
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It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
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I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
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With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
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And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
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What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
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Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
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