Law Quotes

The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Thomas Jefferson

The laws sometimes sleep but never die.

Law Maxim

All things obey fixed laws.

Marcus Manilius

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

Matthew

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

Where law ends there tyranny begins.

The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.

William Shakespeare

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Felix Frankfurter

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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.

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Well I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

Finley Peter Dunne

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

Wendell Phillips

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Spanish Proverb

Law is a bottomless pit.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

Grover Cleveland

Reason is the life of the law nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.

Sir Edward Coke

If the law supposes that said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."

Charles Dickens

Be you never so high the law is above you.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Martial

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Michel de Montaigne

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every new time will give its law.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

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

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled undisciplined feeling.

Felix Frankfurter

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Ugo Betti

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Laurence H. Tribe

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

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

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

Sir James Mathew

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.

William Stafford

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

Solon

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

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