"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
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Source: Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.446
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