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 quotes from Abbie Hoffman

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

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

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

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

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. 39 wisdom & wit 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 more views from Addison Mizner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. 2 more thoughts 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 other views from James Joyce

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

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. 10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. 7 other views 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 quotes from Sonny Bono

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience. 5 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 sayings from Nelson Algren

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. 50 more quotes from Robert Frost

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

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

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. 12 other wisdom & wit from George Herbert

The trouble with law is lawyers. 14 quotes from Clarence Darrow

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. 53 more wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Joseph Addison

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. 4 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 thoughts from Calvin Coolidge

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. 2 other thoughts from Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Advertising is legalized lying. 19 more 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 thoughts from Orson Pratt

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