Liable Quotes

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

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's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.