Liable Quotes

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.

It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?