the law
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Bobby Darin
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 other thoughts from John Clayton
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 quotes 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 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 sayings from Orson Pratt
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 views from Orson Pratt
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 other quotes from H. G. Wells
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 other sayings from Dorothy Day
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 quotes from Will Rogers
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 other wisdom & wit from Felix Frankfurter
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 sayings from Abbie Hoffman
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 wisdom & wit from William E. Gladstone
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 more quotes from Ellen Key
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 other thoughts from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 quotes from Addison Mizner
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 other 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 thoughts from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 views from Sonny Bono
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 more views 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 other wisdom & wit from James Joyce
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 more sayings from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 other sayings from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 sayings from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 quotes from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 other quotes from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 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 views from George Herbert