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 more quotes from Jeremy Bentham
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 quotes from Francois Rabelais
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 more views 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 other views from James Joyce
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 quotes 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 quotes from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 views from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 views from George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 sayings from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 more views from John Lothrop Motley
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 thoughts from Clarence Darrow
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
8 sayings from Bobby Darin
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 views from John Clayton
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 more sayings 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 quotes from Joseph Addison
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
3 other thoughts from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 quotes 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 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
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 views from H. G. Wells
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 other quotes from Orson Pratt
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
6 sayings from Felix Frankfurter
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 more views from Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 other wisdom & wit from Dorothy Day
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
3 other wisdom & wit from Abbie Hoffman
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 quotes from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 wisdom & wit from Addison Mizner
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 more quotes from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 views from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 sayings from Joseph Conrad
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
11 more sayings from Robert E. Lee
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 quotes from Arthur Baer
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 other sayings from William Dunbar