[ severity Quotes ]

5 quotes

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Law and Lawyers
Miguel De Cervantes

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Death and Dying
George Eliot

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Law and Lawyers
Charles De Montesquieu

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Teachers and Teaching
Terence

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Society
Henry David Thoreau

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun