Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Jones, Sir William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

13.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Puzo, Mario

16.

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

19.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

20.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

21.

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

Mill, John Stuart

22.

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

23.

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

Froude, James A.

24.

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

25.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

Nizer, Louis

32.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

33.

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

34.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

35.

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.

36.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

38.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

39.

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

40.

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

Young, Brigham

41.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

Wilson, Earl

43.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

45.

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward

46.

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

Engels, Friedrich

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.