Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Epitaph

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Keats, John

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

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Gladstone, William E.

13.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Sade, Marquis De

15.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

19.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

20.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

21.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Irving, Washington

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Younger, Evelle

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Jones, Sir William

34.

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

Welles, Orson

35.

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

36.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

40.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

41.

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

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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