Hocus pocus Quote by Charles Macklin Download Open image “The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.” — Charles Macklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hocus pocus Law Science
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
... laws haven't the slightest interest for meexcept in the world of science, in which they are always changing; or in the world of… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“So she tried all the magical passwords she could think of. “Abracadabra. Open sesame. Sim salabim. Alakazam. Hocus pocus. Voilà. Please.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Magician, musician. Same thing. A little hocus pocus and a whole lot of faith, right?” — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus. — Anuj Copy Share Image
“You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.” — Todd Strasser Copy Share Image
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
“Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image