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Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape


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ANACHARSIS Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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DIOGENES Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be...
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NEIL GAIMAN Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORE DE BALZAC Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORé DE BALZAC It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN It's big enough for her," said the chat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.
DAVE BARRY Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be to...
ANARCHARSIS Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
ALICE OSWALD Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would b...
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DICK CAVETT Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us...
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ALAN SPROTT There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and...
AMY HARMON Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
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NEIL GAIMAN But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but ...
LAUREN OLIVER Man will always do evil and break laws if God’s moral laws are not their foundation
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PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
TIM ROTH When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have t...
HILARY MANTEL Break through in life is like the main menu,but before you encounter it,you must first encounter man...
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, wh...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of...
ALICE OSWALD Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one pa...
MARK ROTHKO Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.
BRIAN TRACY Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
THOMAS SOWELL But how can you walk away from something and still come
back to it?"
"Easy," said the cat....
NEIL GAIMAN The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detecti...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break ...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break ...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethi...
JOHN DOS PASSOS All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. B...
CATHERINE M. WILSONSON It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win a...
MAX GUNTHER The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take...
VICTOR HUGO It was definitely something to see. I've lived around here for 40 years and have seen some big spide...
BILL FARMER The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small...
NINA LACOUR Know the laws before you break them
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood th...
GEORG BUCHNER A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the s...
ROBERT MORGAN When they don't have room for large lawns or patios anymore, or they're running out of room for thin...
EMILY NOLTING How likely they are to travel ten miles compared to traveling across the country. Human travel withi...
LARS HUFNAGEL Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle.
KEHLOG ALBRAN Bridge decks are wide open spaces, and those large boxes on trucks are simply not stable in high win...
MARK SHEEDY When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small ...
G. K. CHESTERTON There are large companies, but there are also new companies in the country, small companies searchin...
ARMANDO ZAMORA I am very disappointed that David decided to break Ohio's election laws. But I think that voters can...
MARK MALLORY Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the g...
HERMANN HESSE Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the gro...
HERMAN HESSE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind a...
NANCY FARMER Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of ...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of l...
MARK HADDON All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Churc...
W. H. AUDEN When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fest...
T.F. HODGE There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only rec...
J. PAUL GETTY There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only rec...
JEAN PAUL GETTY Tourists hurried past them on the pedestrian-only street like chickens scampering to the feeder, car...
DENNIS VICKERS All beauteous things for which we live
By laws of time and space decay.
But oh, the very rea...
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you...
ERIC WHITACRE Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - bec...
CORY BOOKER No laws can be bend for just one man. Just as all are equal before the laws of God. However, if we c...
C. LIDE SANGTAM In the physical reality of matter, there is no such thing as spirit nor ghost. But there are things ...
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DAVID ANDERS At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time, through strife's hatred...
EMPEDOCLES We have invested tens of millions in capital from loyal and patient investors to bring our products ...
DANIEL MéNDEZ Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
RALPH CHAPLIN All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI c...
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY I'm not a strikeout pitcher. There are just some days when things are going well and it just all fal...
SCOTT DOWNS Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea...
RUDOLF CHRISTOPH EUCKEN I think if we're not careful it might fall through the cracks. If things go the way the national reg...
JEFF MARSHALL But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That...
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GEORGE GORDON BYRON To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible diffe...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to brea...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as wel...
ETTY HILLESUM [Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]
In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the...
PLATO Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actua...
ISADORA DUNCAN If you break them off into individual pieces, they are not that impressive, ... But they play well t...
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