Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

2.

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

3.

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

4.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

5.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

6.

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

Proverb, Spanish

7.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

8.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

10.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

11.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

12.

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

Jones, Sir William

13.

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

Mellor, David

14.

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

Froude, James A.

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

20.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

Puzo, Mario

25.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

26.

The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

27.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

29.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

31.

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

32.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

35.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

39.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

42.

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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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.

45.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

46.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.