Abe Lemons Quotes

Criminals don't care what the law is.

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.