Law and Justice Quotes
Law and Lawyers"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.""Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape" Solon "Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property." Better to be forgotten than sued. "To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt." "The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients" "He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow." "Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns." Louis XIV "The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry IV]" William Shakespeare "The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished." "There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot." "This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice." Oliver Wendell Holmes "Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them." "I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one." Voltaire "I hate lawyers but they do make perfect psychiatric patients. They have full health insurance, and they never get better. (Niles Crane Frasier During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?- P.J. O'Rourke Lawyers occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill If a lawyer and a politician were drowning and you could only save one, would you read your paper or go to lunch? |