Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

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

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

10.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

11.

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

Diderot, Denis

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

15.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

16.

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

Puzo, Mario

17.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

18.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

19.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

20.

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

Frost, Robert

21.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

22.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

24.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

28.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mcilvanney, William

35.

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

Froude, James A.

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

38.

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

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

42.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

43.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

45.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

46.

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

Epitaph

47.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine