Legal Quotes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

More law, less justice.

It is legal because I wish it.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.