Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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.

11.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

12.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gladstone, William E.

35.

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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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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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

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Moore, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Welles, Orson

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

Keats, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, Brigham

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.