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