Quotes
Quotes about Law
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).
But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want--
