the law
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 other quotes 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 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 other thoughts from Bobby Darin
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 other sayings from John Clayton
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 more sayings from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 sayings from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 other thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 sayings from Mary Roberts Rinehart
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 thoughts from Orson Pratt
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 more views from H. G. Wells
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 wisdom & wit from Dorothy Day
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 more views from Will Rogers
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 quotes from Felix Frankfurter
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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 views from Abbie Hoffman
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 other quotes from William E. Gladstone
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 other quotes from Henry Miller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 quotes from Ellen Key
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 quotes 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 other quotes from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 thoughts from Addison Mizner
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 more quotes from William Dunbar
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 more views 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 quotes from Sonny Bono
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 quotes 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 more views from James Joyce
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 sayings from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 quotes 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 more 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 quotes 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 more 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 more sayings from George Herbert