Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Dickens, Charles

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

14.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

15.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

16.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

17.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

18.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

19.

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

21.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

22.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

23.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

24.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

26.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

27.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

28.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

30.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

31.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

37.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

38.

Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

39.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

40.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

42.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

43.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

45.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

47.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

50.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb