Law Quotes

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.

~ Jeremy Bentham

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.

~ Francis Bacon

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

~ Lord Diplock

The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

~ Lord Darling

Trudeau: Yes well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well just watch me. . . .

~ Bible

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

You are remembered for the rules you break.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

~ Karl Llewellyn

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.

~ Anonymous

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

~ David Ferguson

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

~ Barten Holyday

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.

~ Cicero

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

~ R. I. Fitzhenry

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

~ Robert Frost

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.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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

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

~ Edward Bond

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.

~ Maxim Gorky

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

~ Danish Proverb

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.

~ Samuel Butler

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.

~ Robert Frost

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

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

~ Legal Maxim

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.

~ H. L. Mencken

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

~ Gertrude Stein

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

~ Ulysses S. Grant