Bar/law

Famous quotes containing the words bar and/or law:

    “Think ... before the words—the vows are spoken, which put yet another terrible bar between us.... I call upon you in the name of God ... to be sincere with me—Can you, my Annie, bear to think I am another’s?”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “The law cannot be enforced when everyone is an offender.”
    —Chinese proverb.