Best Quotes about Law and lawyers
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Nizer, Louis
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
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Johnson, Samuel
A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Brougham, Lord Henry P.
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
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
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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
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
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.
Grant, Ulysses S.
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
Burke, Edmund
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
Proverb, Spanish
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Hughes, Charles Evans
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
Saurin, Bernard Joseph
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]
Shakespeare, William
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
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
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Mizner, Addison
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
Proverb
Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.
Epitaph
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
Proverb
Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
More, Thomas
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Franklin, Benjamin
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
Proverb, French
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Burke, Edmund
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Frost, Robert
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Azarias
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
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
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Frost, Robert
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Crisp, Quentin
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Diderot, Denis
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Jones, Franklin P.
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Young, Brigham
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
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Butler, Samuel
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Gladstone, William E.
Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
Proverb
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Moore, Thomas
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
Becker, Ward
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
Keats, John
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
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Gandhi, Mahatma
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Goldsmith, Oliver
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
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
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
Tocqueville, Alexis De
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