Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

- Cam, Helen M.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

Younger, Evelle

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Welles, Orson

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

10.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

14.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

15.

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

Becker, Ward

16.

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

17.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

18.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter

19.

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

Nizer, Louis

20.

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

21.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

22.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

27.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

31.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

33.

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

34.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

35.

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

36.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

37.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

38.

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

39.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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

41.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

42.

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

43.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

44.

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

Wilson, Earl

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

49.

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

50.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison