Lawful
Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.
Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands.
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Lawful Quotations
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas Kempis
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
Lawful Translations
lawful in Italian is legittimo, legale
lawful in Latin is legitiums, canonicus, iustus
lawful in Norwegian is rettsmessig, lovlig
lawful in Swedish is laglig
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