Use laws that are old but food that is fresh. By Periander of Corinth Advice, Law, Meaningful, Powerful, Wise
What’s the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology. What’s the second? Tautology. What’s the third? Tautology. By Richard Steele Funny, Law, Lawyer, Sarcastic
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. By Joseph H. Choate Law, Lawyer, Sarcastic
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. By Jean Giraudoux Funny, Law, Lawyer, Truth
I don’t want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire one to tell me how to do what I want to do. By J. P. Morgan Law, Lawyer
Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork—so why should our world be? With the advent of quantum mechanics, the clockwork world has become a cosmic lottery. Fundamental events, such as the decay of a radioactive atom, are held to be determined by chance, not law. By Ian Stewart Chance, Law, Luck
There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. By Hubert H. Humphrey Law
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. By George Savile Law, Lawyer, Sarcastic
What we lawyers want to do is to substitute courts for carnage, dockets for rockets, briefs for bombs, warrants for warheads, mandates for missiles. By George Rhyne Funny, Law, Lawyer
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. By Elizabeth Cady Stanton Contempt, Law
If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. By Edgar Watson Howe Law, Lawyer
Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. By Denis Diderot Law
