Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

10.

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

11.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

12.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

15.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

16.

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

Stirner, Max

17.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

18.

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

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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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Froude, James A.

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

25.

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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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

27.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

28.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Puzo, Mario

31.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

37.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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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

39.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

40.

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

Moore, Thomas

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

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

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

Keats, John

45.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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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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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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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

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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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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb