A Quote by Edward Gibbon

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Edward Gibbon

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Lover Son

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Edward Gibbon
English - Historian
April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

James Gleick

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

William Shakespeare

But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

Ned Kelly

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

Rumi

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

Kedar Joshi

I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

Ned Kelly

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

Rush Limbaugh

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

William Wordsworth

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There was a saying going around the theatre: It's a train, and you can jump on at any point whether you're a lover of musical theatre or a lover of theatre or a lover of hip-hop or a lover of history - there was a way to jump on the train.

Phillipa Soo

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?