A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Honore de Balzac

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Big Flies Law Lets Pass Small Web

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

Claire Cook

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

Max Stirner

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Shunryu Suzuki

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

Benjamin Franklin

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

Henry IV of France

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

Saint Francis de Sales

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

Malcolm X

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

Austin O'Malley

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Alison Gopnik

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.