Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

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

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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

10.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

11.

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

Welles, Orson

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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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

18.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

19.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

23.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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

Jones, Sir William

27.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

28.

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

Puzo, Mario

29.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

31.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

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

33.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

34.

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

Mill, John Stuart

35.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

36.

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

37.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

38.

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

Epitaph

39.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

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

Trapp, June L.

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

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

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

47.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel