Quotes by Macleish, Archibald

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell >>

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in foot >>

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perish >>

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers. >>

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, >>

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald