Lord Edward Coke Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Lord Edward Coke
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“Hope is a waking dream.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“So use your own property as not to injure that of another.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“Where there are many counsellors there is safety.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: probably direct quote of Aristotle (see Diogenes Laertius "Lives of Eminent Philosophers")
“They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”
Business Quotes
Source: Reports (vol. V, Case of Sutton's Hospital)
“For a man's house is his castle.”
Home Quotes
Source: Institutes (pt. III, Against Going, or Riding Armed, p. 162)
“The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.”
Home Quotes
Source: Reports, Semaynes' Case (vol. III, pt. V, p. 185), also found in Broom's Legal Maxims, max. 432