Corn Law Rhymes

Famous quotes containing the words corn, law and/or rhymes:

    “We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Mr. Brownlow: The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.
    Bumble: If that’s what the law supposes, sir, then the law’s an ass. And if that’s the eye of the law, sir, then the law’s a bachelor.”
    —Vernon Harris (c. 1910)

    “Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure
    When with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)