Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

2.

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

Voltaire

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

Diderot, Denis

5.

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

Epitaph

6.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

7.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

8.

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

Stirner, Max

9.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

13.

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

Younger, Evelle

14.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

15.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

16.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

20.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

24.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

25.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

26.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

27.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

28.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

29.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

33.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

34.

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

35.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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.

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Bismarck, Otto Von

38.

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

42.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

43.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

44.

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

45.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

46.

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

Welles, Orson

47.

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

48.

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

Trapp, June L.

49.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

50.

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

Gladstone, William E.