“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz. by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer, if they break them.”
Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
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“(…) Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born.”
Planning
Source: I am That, P.177.

“What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?”
The Wolf and Shepherds (1776).

I will fart all I want to without being told not to.
Source: Linda Porter (2010) Mary Tudor: The First Queen. p. 26: To his half-sister Mary I of England, who was ignoring his anti-Catholic laws. Greenwich, 28 January, 1551.

“In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”
D'ordinaire, ceux qui gouvernent les enfants ne leur pardonnent rien, et se pardonnent tout à eux-mêmes.
Traité de l'éducation des filles, ch. 5, cited from De l'éducation des filles, dialogues des morts et opuscules divers (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1857) p. 15; translation from Selections from the Writings of Fénelon (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829) p. 137. (1687).

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community