the law
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 sayings from Arthur Baer
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 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 sayings from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 more wisdom & wit from Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 sayings 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 sayings 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 quotes from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 sayings 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 views from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 sayings from John Lothrop Motley
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 sayings from George Herbert
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 sayings from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 more quotes from Calvin Coolidge
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 other views from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 other views from Jean de la Bruyere
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 quotes from Orson Pratt
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 other wisdom & wit from Orson Pratt
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 thoughts from H. G. Wells
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 thoughts from Felix Frankfurter
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 quotes from Abbie Hoffman
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 other wisdom & wit from Will Rogers
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 other quotes from Dorothy Day
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 more wisdom & wit from Henry Miller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 more quotes from Ellen Key
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 sayings 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 thoughts from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 thoughts from Joseph Conrad