Complemento De Pago Quotes

#1. In cases of invasion or insurrection, if the town-officers neglect to furnish the necessary stores and ammunition for the militia, the township may be condemned to a fine of from $200 to $500. It may readily be imagined that in such a case it might happen that no one cared to prosecute; hence the law adds that all the citizens may indict offences of this kind, and that half of the fine shall belong to the plaintiff. See Act of March 6, 1810, vol. ii. p. 236. - Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet, - Author: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#3. She was chased by the feelings she was not ready to let go of. - Author: Giovannie De Sadeleer

#4. Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. - Author: Alain De Botton

#6. Examples out of History, of People free and in the State of Nature, that being met together incorporated and began a Common-wealth. And if the want of such instances be an argument to prove that Government were not, nor could not be so begun, I suppose the contenders for Parernal Empire were better let it alone, than urge it against natural Liberty. For if they can give so many instances out of History, of Governments begun upon Paternal Right, I think (though at best an Argument from what has been, to what should of right be, has no great force) one might, without any great danger, yield them the cause. But if I might advise the Original of Governments, as they have begun de facto, lest they should find at the foundation of most of them, something very little favourable to the design they promote, and such a power as they contend for. - Author: John Locke

#7. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
[My Uncle Sosthenes] - Author: Guy De Maupassant

#8. My good sir, is she your daughter then?'
'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.'
'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants. - Author: Chretien De Troyes

#9. It may be a sign that two people have stopped loving one another (or at least stopped wishing to make the effort that constitutes ninety per cent of love) when they are no longer able to spin differences into jokes. Humour lined the walls of irritation between our ideals and the reality: behind every joke, there was a warning of difference, of disappointment even, but it was a difference that had been defused - and could therefore be passed over without the need for a pogrom. - Author: Alain De Botton

#10. Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet. - Author: Oscar De La Renta

#11. Mount Calvary is the academy of love. - Author: Saint Francis De Sales

#12. It was hopeless. Their journey was ended before it had truly begun. - Author: Melissa De La Cruz

#13. We are all blockheads. - Author: Michel De Montaigne

#14. The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#15. Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Author: David Allen

#16. The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. - Author: Remy De Gourmont

#18. The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. - Author: Louis De Bernieres

#19. But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away. - Author: Charles De Lint

#20. Perhaps there was a secret door down low in the wall, a door only large enough for a child. If I stepped through that door, I would be in another world, in fairyland perhaps. It would be warm and bright there, and I would have a magical wand to protect myself. I'd ride on the back of a dragonfly, swooping through the forest. I'd battle dragons and talk to birds and have all kinds of grand adventures.
Later, I found that small door into fairyland could be conjured any time I needed it. The world beyond the door was different every time. Sometimes, I found a little stone house in the woods where I could live with just Nanette and my sister, Marie, and a tabby cat who purred by the fire. Sometimes, I lived in a castle in the air with a handsome prince who loved me. Other times, I was the prince myself, with a golden sword and a white charger. - Author: Kate Forsyth

#21. We had often read the same books at night in the same bed, and later realized that they had touched us in different places: that they had been different books for each of us. Might the same divergence not occur over a single love-line? I felt like a dandelion releasing hundreds of spores into the air - and not knowing if any of them would get through. - Author: Alain De Botton

#22. Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. - Author: Jean De La Fontaine

#23. I'm a writer. I'm not an actress. - Author: Tatiana De Rosnay

#24. Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. - Author: Anthony De Mello

#25. There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can. - Author: Vincent De Paul

#26. Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy. - Author: Therese De Lisieux

#27. Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share. - Author: Jean De La Bruyere

#28. L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther). - Author: Roland Barthes

#29. But one of shallow wit, somewhat like a saltshaker with very little salt. In - Author: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#30. What is working stain, does not soil. - Author: Edmondo De Amicis