Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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

Moore, Thomas

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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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

11.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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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

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

25.

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

Froude, James A.

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Diderot, Denis

34.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

40.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

44.

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

Nizer, Louis

45.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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