Quotes about law
law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
lawyer diplomacy
Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy. Charles Stross
law religion alive
They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel. Charles Spurgeon
law pleasure
God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.
law grace holy
They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.
law promise important
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
law justice judging
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just. Alan Paton
law two mind
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important. Alan Moore
law mad trying
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
law enabling foundation
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Alan Bullock
law influence economics
"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently. Alan Blinder
law causes weakness
It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us. Al Smith
law names generic-name
THE LAW OF THE GENERIC: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name. Al Ries
law focus stronger
THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
law space evil
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell. Aiden Wilson Tozer
law watches looks
The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.
law issues choices
If I had the choice now, I'd make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and carry. Now our legislature won't do that, but I have done recently is to make sure that we're making it easier for folks to be able to get a permit in New Jersey because they deserve the right to do that as law-abiding citizens. Chris Christie
lawyer
I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer. David Shapiro
law hoarding dollars
Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime. David Mitchell
law world example
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. Dave Barry
law advice way
[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.
law parent helping
Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.