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