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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Solon

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Solon
Greek - Statesman
638 BC - 558 BC

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Anacharsis

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Solon

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

Neil Gaiman

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

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

Honore de Balzac

Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

Aviva Chomsky

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Francis Bacon

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Allston

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Anacharsis

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

E. Stanley Jones

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Dave Barry

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Maude Royden

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.

Neil Gaiman

For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.

Alexander Masters

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Alice Oswald

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