Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Young, Brigham

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

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

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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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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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

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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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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

21.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Voltaire

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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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.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

33.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

35.

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

Puzo, Mario

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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

Keats, John

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Owen, Robert

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

Epitaph

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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.