Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

1.

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

2.

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

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

3.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

4.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

5.

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.

6.

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Lafollette, Suzanne

9.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Hughes, Charles Evans

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

16.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

17.

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.

Azarias

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

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

20.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

21.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

22.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Proverb

23.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Talmud, The

26.

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

Trapp, June L.

27.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

28.

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

Gladstone, William E.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Froude, James A.

31.

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

32.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

33.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Fielding, Henry

34.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

37.

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Becker, Ward

40.

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.

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

Brougham, Lord Henry P.

44.

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

Irving, Washington

45.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

49.

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

Burke, Edmund

50.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald