Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 15, 1822 - February 3, 1888

Topics

SuccessKnowledgeLawWorldLegal

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

ValueYouAccomplishGoalWillGet

The rail service is important for my district.

Jerry Weller

ServiceImportantRailDistrict

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

LiveKnowledgeSeaIgnoranceIsland

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

Jennifer Egan

PeopleFeelYouPicturesNothing

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.

Jenson Button

CarHopeSmall ThingsIdeasSmall

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Robert Herrick

MoneyMoreSlaveWhoEvermore

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Andy Partridge

StupidJazzRockBeingWouldSort

I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

Stephanie Seymour

CharacterMyselfI AmSomeoneYou

America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.

Tom Cotton

AmericaWillNeverTortureDoes

I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

RM

TeacherTimeMyselfParentsThought

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

Ron Perlman

ThinkCareerAdmireWhoseLikeElse

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

Don Johnson

DayJoyPeopleYouUpWhole

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