Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

- Macklin, Charles

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Becker, Ward

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.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Puzo, Mario

16.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

17.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Engels, Friedrich

30.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

31.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Mellor, David

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

38.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

39.

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

40.

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

Moore, Thomas

41.

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

42.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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

44.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

46.

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