Liable
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.
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Liable Quotations
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.
John Lennon
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liable Translations
liable in German is verantwortlich, verpflichtet, verantwortlich
liable in Italian is responsabile, responsabile, obbligato
liable in Spanish is obligado
liable in Swedish is ansvarig
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