Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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.

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Voltaire

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Trapp, June L.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

10.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

21.

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

Younger, Evelle

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

28.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

34.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

35.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Mellor, David

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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

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mill, John Stuart

42.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

43.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

44.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

45.

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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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

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Irving, Washington

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.