Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

the law

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

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.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Advertising is legalized lying.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.