the law
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 other wisdom & wit from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 quotes from John Lothrop Motley
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 more quotes from Clarence Darrow
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 wisdom & wit from George Herbert
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
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 views from Honore de Balzac
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 views from John Clayton
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 quotes from Bobby Darin
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 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 views 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 sayings from Orson Pratt
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 views from H. G. Wells
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 quotes from Orson Pratt
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 more quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 other sayings from Will Rogers
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 more sayings from Felix Frankfurter
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 quotes from Dorothy Day
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 other thoughts from Will Rogers
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 more wisdom & wit from Abbie Hoffman
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 other views from William E. Gladstone
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 quotes from Ellen Key
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 other quotes from Addison Mizner
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 more 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 quotes from Joseph Conrad
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 other sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 quotes from Arthur Baer
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 views from Robert E. Lee
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 views from William Dunbar
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 sayings from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 thoughts 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
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 quotes 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 views from Robert Frost