Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Trapp, June L.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Frost, Robert

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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

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

Voltaire

10.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

11.

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

Mille, Cecil B. De

12.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

13.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

19.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

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

21.

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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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Young, Brigham

26.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

27.

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

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

Becker, Ward

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

33.

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

34.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

35.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

39.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Cam, Helen M.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

44.

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

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Pomerantz, Hart

47.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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