Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

2.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

3.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

4.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

7.

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

8.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

9.

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

Puzo, Mario

10.

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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

17.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

18.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Mcilvanney, William

20.

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

21.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

22.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

24.

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

Mellor, David

25.

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

26.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

Trapp, June L.

28.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Butler, Samuel

29.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

30.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

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.

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

41.

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

Pomerantz, Hart

42.

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

Gladstone, William E.

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

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

Welles, Orson

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.