the law
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 thoughts from H. G. Wells
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 more quotes from Orson Pratt
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 thoughts from Orson Pratt
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 quotes from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 more quotes from Felix Frankfurter
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 more views from Dorothy Day
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 other views from Robert Louis Stevenson
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 more sayings from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 more sayings from Addison Mizner
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 more quotes from Henry Miller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 other views from Ellen Key
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 views from Joseph Conrad
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 sayings from Addison Mizner
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 more sayings from William Dunbar
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 views from Arthur Baer
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 quotes from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 more quotes from Francois Rabelais
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 other thoughts from Charles Lamb
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
11 quotes from James Joyce
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 thoughts from Jeremy Bentham
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 other quotes from Sonny Bono
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 more sayings from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 views from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 more wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 views from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 more quotes from George Herbert
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 sayings from George Herbert
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 quotes from Bobby Darin
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 more quotes from Joseph Addison
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 quotes from John Clayton
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 more sayings from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 other views from Calvin Coolidge