The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Quote by A E Housman

Topics: Law And Lawyers Quotes

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail....

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail....

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over...

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over...

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the...

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways...

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land...

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a...

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a...

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever...

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever...

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden,...

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden,...