Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
It is better to be a mouse in a cat’s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands.
—Spanish Proverb
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
—Addison Mizner (1872–1933) American Architect, Designer
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
—Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.
—Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917) American Lawyer, Diplomat
Somebody figured it out—we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
—Earl Wilson (1907–87) American Broadway Gossip Columnist
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
—James Anthony Froude (1818–94) British Historian, Novelist, Biographer, Editor
The first thing we do, let’s kill the lawyers.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
—John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet
Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
—Common Proverb
Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida (Maria Louise Rame) (1839–1908) English Novelist
Law and equity are two things that God hath joined together, but which man has put asunder.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
—Gerald F. Lieberman
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
Adversaries in law strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940) Lithuanian-American Anarchist, Feminist
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
—Brigham Young (1801–77) American Mormon Leader
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
Accuracy and diligence are much more necessary to a lawyer than great comprehension of mind, or brilliancy of talent.—His business is to refine, define, split hairs, look into authorities, and compare cases.—A man can never gallop over the fields of law on Pegasus, nor fly across them on the wing of oratory.—If he would stand on terra firma, he must descend.—If he would be a great lawyer, he must first consent to become a great drudge.
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
The good lawyer knows the law; the clever one knows the judge.
—U.S. Proverb
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience.
—French Proverb
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
—Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) Austrian-Born American Jurist
A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer’s garden.
—Italian Proverb
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
—Otto von Bismarck (1815–98) German Chancellor, Prime Minister
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
—Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) American Film Producer, Director
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
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