the law
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 quotes from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 views from John Lothrop Motley
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 views from Clarence Darrow
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 wisdom & wit from George Herbert
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
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 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 other sayings from John Clayton
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 views from Bobby Darin
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 more thoughts from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 more quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 more thoughts from Mary Roberts Rinehart
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 other sayings from Orson Pratt
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 other sayings from Orson Pratt
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 other views from Robert Louis Stevenson
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 quotes from Felix Frankfurter
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 quotes from Dorothy Day
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 more quotes from Will Rogers
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 more quotes from Abbie Hoffman
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 more quotes from William E. Gladstone
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 more views from Ellen Key
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 other sayings from Henry Miller
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 quotes from Addison Mizner
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 other sayings from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 other quotes from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 sayings from Joseph Conrad
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 wisdom & wit from Arthur Baer
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 more quotes from William Dunbar
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 more sayings from Charles Lamb
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 other views from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 other quotes from Jeremy Bentham
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 quotes 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 views from James Joyce
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 other views from Charles Lamb
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
2 other views from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 thoughts from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 quotes from Robert Frost