Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Saurin, Bernard Joseph

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

13.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sprecht, Robert D.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Epitaph

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

Becker, Ward

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

Younger, Evelle

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

33.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

34.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

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

Talmud, The

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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

42.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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

Proverb

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Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise