Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
10 sayings from Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
7 thoughts from Jeremy Bentham
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
13 sayings from Francois Rabelais
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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Nelson Algren
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
5 more wisdom & wit from Robert Casey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
12 wisdom & wit from George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
12 other sayings from George Herbert
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
2 other thoughts from John Lothrop Motley
The trouble with law is lawyers.
14 other quotes 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 quotes from Bobby Darin
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
4 sayings from John Clayton
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
53 thoughts 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 quotes from Frederic Bastiat
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
17 other views from Calvin Coolidge
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
26 more wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
2 sayings from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
3 other quotes from Orson Pratt
Advertising is legalized lying.
19 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Felix Frankfurter
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
4 sayings from Dorothy Day
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
39 more 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 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from William E. Gladstone
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
3 more quotes from Addison Mizner
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 other quotes from Ellen Key
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
3 sayings 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 views from Robert E. Lee
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
2 more sayings from Arthur Baer
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
2 other wisdom & wit from William Dunbar