Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1008
AUTHOR:
Alfred Edward Housman (18591936)
QUOTATION:
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me; And if my ways are not as theirs Let them mind their own affairs.
ATTRIBUTION:
A. E. HOUSMAN, The laws of God, the laws of man, line 16, Last Poems, in The Collected Poems, p. 79 (1967).