Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Irving, Washington

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

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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

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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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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Welles, Orson

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Stirner, Max

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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

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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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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

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

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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

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas