Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

legal

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. 3 views from Abbie Hoffman

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. 6 more quotes from Felix Frankfurter

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. 4 more quotes from Dorothy Day

People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. 57 views from Will Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. 57 sayings from Will Rogers

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. 39 other views from Robert Louis Stevenson

Justice delayed is justice denied. 7 more quotes from William E. Gladstone

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit. 3 quotes from Addison Mizner

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. 23 quotes from Henry Miller

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. 4 more sayings from Ellen Key

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. 3 more quotes from Addison Mizner

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. 14 more quotes from Joseph Conrad

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. 2 thoughts from William Dunbar

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. 11 views from Robert E. Lee

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. 41 other sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. 2 other quotes from Arthur Baer

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. 11 quotes from James Joyce

Misery is the company of lawsuits. 13 quotes from Francois Rabelais

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. 10 views from Charles Lamb

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. 7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. 10 thoughts from Charles Lamb

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language. 2 other quotes from Sonny Bono

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience. 5 other wisdom & wit from Robert Casey

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. 2 quotes from Nelson Algren

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. 50 other sayings from Robert Frost

A good lawyer is a bad Christian. 2 sayings from John Lothrop Motley

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. 12 quotes from George Herbert

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. 12 sayings from George Herbert

The trouble with law is lawyers. 14 other wisdom & wit from Clarence Darrow

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. 24 quotes from Joseph Addison

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. 4 quotes from John Clayton

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents. 8 quotes from Bobby Darin

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? 3 quotes from Frederic Bastiat

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. 17 other quotes from Calvin Coolidge

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. 2 wisdom & wit from Mary Roberts Rinehart

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

Advertising is legalized lying. 19 quotes from H. G. Wells

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. 3 other views from Orson Pratt

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. 3 quotes from Orson Pratt