Quotes by Authors - Page 147

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
Anonymous
A lawyer must first get on then get honor and then get honest.
Anonymous
There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Michel Montaigne
The laws sometimes sleep but never die.
Law Maxim
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Be you never so high the law is above you.
Thomas Fuller
If the law supposes that said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."
Charles Dickens
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
Roscoe Pound
In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Louis Nizer
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Anatole France
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Anonymous
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
Laurence H. Tribe
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Hermann Hesse
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Every new time will give its law.
Maxim Gorky
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Michel de Montaigne
In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
F. Lee Bailey
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Ambrose Bierce
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
David Ferguson
Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
Anonymous
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
Karl Llewellyn
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."
Anonymous
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Ambrose Bierce
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
Charles C. Grevvile
Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson
Mary had a little lamb It's fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
Sarah J. Hale
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world must follow you!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Miguel de Cervantes
For knowledge too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.
Anonymous
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.
Henry David Thoreau
The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
Martin H. Fisher
We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.
Carolyn Wells
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
Cyril Joad
The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.
Samuel Butler
President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.
Oliver North
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Lord Chesterfield
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Some women blush when they are kissed some call for the police some swear some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
Anonymous
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill
Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection or too fresh the grudge.
Anonymous
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater