the law
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 more sayings from Jeremy Bentham
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 quotes from Francois Rabelais
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 views from James Joyce
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 views from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 other thoughts from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 more sayings from George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 quotes from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 other quotes from John Lothrop Motley
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 thoughts from Bobby Darin
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 quotes 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
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 more thoughts from Joseph Addison
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 views from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 other quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
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 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 sayings from Orson Pratt
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 more wisdom & wit from Felix Frankfurter
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 sayings from Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 more thoughts from Will Rogers
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 more quotes from Dorothy Day
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 other sayings from Abbie Hoffman
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 more thoughts from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 other quotes from Addison Mizner
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 more thoughts from Joseph Conrad
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 more views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 more views from Arthur Baer
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 quotes from William Dunbar