Quotes About The Twelve Tables

#1. The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

#2. The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)

Robert J. Hutchinson

#3. Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

Francis Bacon

#4. As she read on, her surroundings gradually faded, and soon there lay about her only the mists of dream; the purple, star-strown mists beyond Time, where only gods and dreamers walk.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. It is almost a cliche to hear people talking about 'slowing down' but it is true. I have slowed down and through slowing, I see so much more.

Cecelia Ahern

#6. You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

Robert Caro

#7. Thirteen at a table is unlucky only,
when the hostess has only twelve chops.

Groucho Marx

#8. The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more.

Robin Jarvis

#9. Within less than an hour, Chuck and I easily located what could well be the correct platform, where we pass the time by perspiring freely until the train storms in, colorfully decorated, as is the tradition in New York, with the spray-painted initials of all the people it has run over.

Dave Barry

#10. The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Henry George

#11. The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

Rolf Potts

#12. I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

Tina Fey