Law
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Bentham, Jeremy
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Bierce, Ambrose
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
- Chinese Proverb
Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Chinese Proverb
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Franklin, Benjamin
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- Gilbert, William S.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
- Housman, A. E.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
- Roosevelt, Theodore
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
- Shaw, George Bernard
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
- Terence
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
- Tupper
