Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

10.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

11.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

12.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Mellor, David

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

More, Thomas

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

35.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

Mencken, H. L.

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Becker, Ward