Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

the law

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

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.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.