the law
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 quotes from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 quotes from John Lothrop Motley
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 quotes 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 views 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 more thoughts 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 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 more sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 views from Mary Roberts Rinehart
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
3 more quotes from Orson Pratt
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 more 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 thoughts from Orson Pratt
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 more sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
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 other wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Abbie Hoffman
Justice delayed is justice denied.
7 wisdom & wit from William E. Gladstone
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Addison Mizner
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 quotes from Addison Mizner
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 thoughts 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 quotes from William Dunbar
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 other quotes from Francois Rabelais
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
2 other 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 quotes from James Joyce
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
10 sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Robert Frost