the law
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 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 more quotes 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
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 quotes from Abbie Hoffman
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 thoughts from Felix Frankfurter
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 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 thoughts from Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 other views from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 thoughts from Addison Mizner
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 quotes from Ellen Key
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 more thoughts from Joseph Conrad
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 more sayings from William Dunbar
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 more quotes from Arthur Baer
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 quotes from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 quotes from Francois Rabelais
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 quotes from James Joyce
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 sayings from Jeremy Bentham
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 quotes from Sonny Bono
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 sayings 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 sayings from John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 other quotes from George Herbert
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 more sayings from Clarence Darrow
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 other thoughts from George Herbert
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 other quotes from Bobby Darin
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
24 other quotes from Joseph Addison
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 more thoughts from Honore de Balzac
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 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 thoughts from Calvin Coolidge