Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Mellor, David

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

Engels, Friedrich

12.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

15.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

17.

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

18.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

21.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

22.

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

Gladstone, William E.

23.

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

24.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

Young, Brigham

28.

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

29.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Epitaph

38.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

39.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

Mellor, David

41.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

42.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

43.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

44.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

45.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Kennedy, Robert F.

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

50.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart