The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‚Children’s Letters to God.‘ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‚Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.‘

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Facts are stubborn things.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.