Labour - Quotes

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All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr

As salt savors the broth, so does labour give a relish to pleasure. - William Scott Downey

Every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labour spent on it is dishonest. - Leo Tolstoy

By persistent labour man may attain to all excellence. - Demosthenes

He that labours is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand. - Italian Proverb

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labour, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. - Saadi

It is ... only through strife, through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and by resolute courage, we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is good to labour; it is also good to rest from labour. - Horace

It is labour alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. - Ludwig von Mises

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity. - John Ruskin

It is to labour, and to labour only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labour is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. - John Ramsay

Labour conquers all things. - Virgil

Labour in all its variety, corporeal and mental, is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers, under the direction and control of will. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, and without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Labour is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour and could never have existed if labour had not first existed. Labour is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln

Labour is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. - Samuel Smiles

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. - Henry Ford

Labour is the root of riches. - Edward Counsel

Labour is the source of every blessing. - Aesop

Labour with what zeal we will, something still remains undone, something uncompleted still waits the rising of the sun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Labour, laughing at difficulties, spans majestic rivers, carries viaducts over marshy swamps, suspends bridges over deep ravines, pierces the solid mountains with the dark tunnel, blasting rocks and filling hollows, and, while linking together all nations of the earth pities the proud fool and laughs him to scorn. He shall pass to dust, forgotten; but Labour will live forever, glorious in its conquests and monuments, and will keep organized no matter how many temporary defeats it endures. - Newman Hall

Labour, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings. - John Rogers Pitma

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing. - William Penn

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. - Anatole France

No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - André Gide

No man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. - Thomas Jefferson

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labour for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure. - James Mill

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want. - Voltaire

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much. - William Cowper

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour. - Erasmus

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. - Leonardo da Vinci

Sulky labour and the labour of sorrow are little worth. Whatever a man does with a guilty feeling he is apt to do wrong; and whatever he does with a melancholy feeling he is likely to do by halves. - James Hamilton

The hope of reward is the solace of labour. - Publilius Syrus

The lot of man is ceaseless labour, or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. - T. S. Eliot

There can be no general prosperity where labour has small reward. - Lewis F. Korns

There is a beautiful reciprocity between labour and wealth; if the latter is produced by the former, the former is invigorated and sustained by the latter. - Tristam Burgess

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labour bestows. - Steven Gould

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labour. - Henry Ward Beecher

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise. - Samuel Johnson

We assert that labour which is now monotonous, repugnant, and degrading, can be ennobled, elevated, and made honourable; or in other words, that industry can be rendered attractive! - A. Brisbane

What is acquired without labour is seldom worth acquiring at all. - Anne Radcliffe

What is earned with hard labour is eaten with pleasure. - Chinese Proverb

Without labour, nothing prospers. - Sophocles

Language - Quotes

A hallmark feature of human intelligence is its adaptability, the ability to invent and rearrange conceptions of the world to suit changing goals and environments. One consequence of this flexibility is the great diversity of languages that have emerged around the globe. Each provides its own cognitive toolkit and encapsulates the knowledge and world-view developed over thousands of years within a culture. Each contains a way of perceiving, categorizing and making meaning in the world, an invaluable guidebook developed and honed by our ancestors. - Lera Boroditsky
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed. - Marcel Proust

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. - J. K. Rowling

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. - John Dryden

For many people, language is inseparable from cultural identity since it is the means by which members of communities communicate with one another, and how individuals establish that they are, in fact, members of the same cultural community. - Lily Wong Fillmore

How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words. - Herbert Spencer

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. - Confucius

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

In the acquisition of languages by direct study, where time can be afforded for the purpose, it is found that several languages, belonging to the same family – as the Latin, Italian, and Spanish, for instance – can be acquired together, almost as easily and rapidly, as either of them can be acquired separately, and with far less chance of their being lost from the memory of disuse. By finding the roots in the parent tongue, and by tracing the growth from these roots outward into different tongues, as it were genealogically, it is found that they descend and spread according to certain organic laws of modification and growth. - Horace Mann

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man. - Fluke Greville

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one. - Arthur Helps

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. - Karl Marx

Language is a window to the world. - Susanna Zaraysky

Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul. - Carl Jung

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions. - William Benton Clulow

Language is the dress of thought. - Samuel Johnson

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. - Mark Hopkins

Language, which is the uniting bond and very medium of communion between men, is at the same time by the great variety of tongues, the means of severing and estranging nations more than anything else. - Horace Smith

One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. - Frank Smith

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. - Toni Morrison

Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak. - Horace Mann

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old clichés or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult. - Gao XingJian

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don’t have access to most of human experience, and if you don’t have access to experience, then you’re not going to be able to think properly. - Noam Chomsky

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George Orwell

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The limits of my language are the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step. - Leonard Boomfield

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. - Maria Edgeworth

There’s no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. - Ellen Gilchrist

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savour their songs. - Nelson Mandela

Without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? - Melina Marchetta

Laws - Quotes

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man with a club is a law-maker. - Jack London

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. - Ambrose Bierce

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! - Lord Bryon

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. - Robert A Heinlein

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system. - Ellen DeGeneres

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle

Every land has its own law. - J. Carmichael

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behaviour. All patterned behaviour tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. - Frank Herbert

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead. - Horace Mann

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. - Ulysses S. Grant

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. - Julius Caesar

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ‘tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. - John Selden

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. - Thomas Hobbes

In all governments, there must of necessity be both the law and the sword; laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness; and arms without laws, would produce not subjection, but slavery. The law, therefore, should be unto the sword what the handle is to the hatchet; it should direct the stroke and temper the force. - Charles Caleb Colton

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 Colton 

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. - Niccolo Machiavelli

It is wrong to consider that courts are established for the benefit of the people. Those who want to perpetuate their power do so through the courts. If people were to settle their own quarrels, a third party would not be able to exercise any authority over them. Truly, men were less unmanly when they settled their disputes either by fighting or by asking their relatives to decide for them. They became more unmanly and cowardly when they resorted to the courts of law. It was certainly a sign of savagery when they settled their disputes by fighting. Is it any less so, if I ask a third party to decide between you and me? Surely, the decision of a third party is not always right. The parties alone know who is right. We, in our simplicity and ignorance, imagine that a stranger, by taking our money, gives us justice. - Mahatma Gandhi

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. - John Paul Jones

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it. - Henry Ward Beecher

Just because something is a law doesn’t make it right. - Unknown

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end. - G. P. Morris

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice. - Bertrand Russell

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue. - Epictetus

Law is a bunch of words written on paper by people who are generally considered to be liars and thieves. So let’s try to figure out what’s right rather than what’s legal. - Joe Rogan

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus, all practicing lawyers – and most others in the profession – will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. - Alan Dershowitz

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

Law is the rudder of the ship of state. - Austin O’Malley

Law is the supreme power in the state, through its legislature, commanding what is right, and condemning what is wrong. - Calvin Townsend

Law without justice is a wound without a cure. - William Scott Downey

Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. - Albert Einstein

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. - Henry Ward Beecher

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? - Charlotte Brontë

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. - Paolo Bacigalupi

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in. - William Shenstone

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, namely, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. - George Savile

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. - Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are only words, words written on paper, words that change on society’s whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. - John J. Miller

Laws are subordinate to custom. - Titus Maccius Plautus

Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. - Scottish Proverb

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. - Oliver Goldsmith

Laws like to cobwebs catch small flies, great ones break thro' before your eyes. - Benjamin Franklin

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made. - George Washington

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham

Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. - Samuel Smiles

No man is above the law, and no man is below it. - Theodore Roosevelt

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. - Abraham Lincoln

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Jean Anouilh

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. - Iain M. Banks

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous. - Edmund Burke

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson

So diverse and adverse are the decisions of different high courts, and of the same high court, that in examining cases, as precedents by which to try a suit, the lawyer encounters a perpetual change of cloud and sunshine, and occasionally a real thunder storm, succeeded by a burning sun. What was law at one time, is not law now – what is law in one place, is not in another – locality, individuality, prejudice, and perpetual change, characterize the decisions of judges learned in the law. - Levi Carroll Judson

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. - John Locke

The final test of civilization of a people is the respect they have for law. - Lewis F. Korns

The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. Law and order enforced with justice and by strength lie at the foundations of civilization. Law must be based upon justice, else it cannot stand, and it must be enforced with resolute firmness, because weakness in enforcing it means in the end that there is no justice and no law, nothing but the rule of disorderly and unscrupulous strength. Without the habit of orderly obedience to the law, without the stern enforcement of the laws at the expense of those who defiantly resist them, there can be no possible progress, moral or material, in civilization. - Theodore Roosevelt

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law. - Thomas Hobbes

The law is the public conscience. - Thomas Hobbes

The natural law is the creator’s law, it is a gift. So, humans must make themselves available to this law in order to know who they are. Since the natural law is a law of healthy; respect of the latter will make Earth balanced, and no more will we hear about global warming, pollution, deforestation … - Benin

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man wilfully, and to render every man his due carefully. - Aristotle

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. - Benjamin Franklin

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law. - Diogenes Laertius 

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown

There are times, too, when the law doesn't give a damn who gets caught beneath its wheels. - Susanne Alleyn

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. - Aung San Suu Kyi

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. - Hunter S. Thompson

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law’s treatment. - David Mamet

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. - Nelson Mandela

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights. - Calvin Coolidge

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. - Sydney Smith

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli

Where law ends, tyranny begins. - William Pitt

Without law men are beasts. - Maxwell Anderson

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands. - Victor Cousin

Lawyers - Quotes

A countryman between two Lawyers, is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

A lawyer and a cart wheel must be greased. - John R. Beard

A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe. - Robert Christy

Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated has the burden of explaining who will take their place. Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination, and the victims of racial violence?... Lawyers are the simple yet essential means by which people seek to vindicate their rights and we must not foreclose that means. - John Curtin

As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. - Abraham Lincoln

As to the essentials of a good lawyer, I have some very definite convictions. He should have a keen sense of right and wrong and a firm belief in basic moral values. I would hate to trust the welfare or protection of the life or property of any of my clients to a lawyer who had no respect for moral values, or one who had a callous indifference as to what was basically right and wrong. - Joseph T. Karcher

At the most pragmatic level, lawyers are society's professional problem solvers. Lawyers are called upon to make distinctions, to explain how and why cases or experiences are alike or different. Lawyers are expected to restore equilibrium, to be balancers. Every discipline, every profession, every job, and every calling has a cutting edge. At that cutting edge, lines are drawn. Lawyers and judges are society's ultimate line drawers. On one side of the line, the conduct, action, or inaction is proper; on the other side of the line, it is not. - Rennard Strickland & Frank T. Read

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. - Felix G. Rohatyn

Good trial lawyers are like writers with heavily plotted stories and sharply defined characters. They lay out each detail precisely to create an illusion of seamless inevitability, leaving no room for doubt, not possibility for an alternate ending. - Elyssa East

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. - Charles Lamb

He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J. Hunter

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby – not even money, certainly not my soul. - Mahatma Gandhi

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim. - Samuel Johnson

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade. - Charles Caleb Colton

In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day. - Fred Rodell

It does seem asinine to tolerate a system under which the lawyers always win, whether heads or tails come up. - Frank Cramer

It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law. - Moses Crowell

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. - Lamartine

It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way; and if there is no hole, to make one. - W. Ouseley

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus, all practicing lawyers – and most others in the profession – will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. - Alan Dershowitz

Lawyer even sounds like liar. - Walter Mosley

Lawyers are a bad lot.... They cheat their living out of honest people. - Albert R. Carman

Lawyers are doubters, skeptics; not in a bad sense. But they never know anything absolutely and utterly without qualifications or modifications. - G. N. Tillman

Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice. - Richard L Abel

Lawyers are like catfish. A nibble here, a nibble there ... before you know it the principal's gone, you've got a pile of bills, and not much else. - Meredith Blevins

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

Lawyers are like doctors. They've each a secret language of their own so that if you get a letter from one lawyer you've got to take it to another to get it read, just like a doctor sends you to a chemist with a rigmarole that no one else can read, so they can charge you what they like for a drop of coloured water. - Harold Brighhouse

Lawyers are like foxes, small and innocuous, but all the time stealthily sniffing the air. - Michael O’Sullivan

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. - John Gierach

Lawyers are like painters – once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again. - Peter Anderson Graham

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow

Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying. - Leo Reilly

Lawyers are like scissors; they never cut each other, but what is between them. - Unknown

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers – you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda

Lawyers are like wine – you can pay a lot of money for a fancy bottle that tastes like vinegar, or you can find a good deal that fits your budget and your palate alike. - Karen A. Covy

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. - Robert Christy

Lawyers are men who will swear black is white – if they are paid for it. - Edward Counsel

Lawyers are natural politicians. - Clarence Darrow

Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. - Jane Bryant Quinn

Lawyers are perceived by some to matriculate in a realm, if not of their own making, then at least of their own maintenance, in which the secrets of power over the political and legal machinery are reserved, protected, and ultimately manipulated for their own advantage and to the detriment and divestment of others. - Walter Bennett

Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B. McKay

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

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. - Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there were no lawyers. - Ken Alstad

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way, this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational responses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman. - Thane Rosenbaum

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. - Lord Bolingbroke

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. - Jodi Picoult

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. - James Alan Gardner

Most of the dishonest lawyers are the product of dishonest clients – the demand creates the supply. - Morris Salem

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer. - Lani Guinier

Never enter into an argument with a lawyer, for, of necessity, it is time lost; not that lawyers are fools – far from it – but that their intellects are concentrated in the endeavour to make sophistries pass for truths. - Charles William Day

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. - Sinclair Lewis

Ours is a culture dominated by experts, experts who profess to assist the rest of us, but who often instead make us their victim. Among those experts whom we are often victimized the most notable are perhaps the lawyers. If you as a plain person take yourself to be wronged and you wish to achieve redress, or if you are falsely accused and you wish to avoid unjust punishment, or if you need to negotiate some agreement with others in order to launch some enterprise, you will characteristically find yourself compelled to put yourself into the hands of lawyers – lawyers who will proceed to represent you by words that are often not in fact yours, who will utter in your name documents that it would never have occurred to you to utter, and you will behave ostensibly on your behalf in ways that may well be repugnant to you, so guiding you through processes whose complexity seems to have as a central function to make it impossible for plain persons to do without lawyers. - Alasdair Macintyre

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers

People who use lawyers are not people you would really want to hang around with. - Deborah Ross

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. - C. J. Cherryh

Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve. - Thane Rosenbaum

Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot. - Adolphus William Ward

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial. - David Berg

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. - Clarence Darrow

The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict. - G. Christopher Ritter

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell. - Henry George Bohn

The most successful trial lawyers are often master storytellers, making their cases come to life for their jurors. The reason is that stories matter ... stories are the deepest and most obvious way that humans organize, communicate, receive, and digest facts. - G. Christopher Ritter

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation. - Robert H. Jackson

The only secret that the lawyer really possesses about the law is that no one can ever be certain of what the law is.... The lawyer is accustomed to the ways of bending and changing rules to suit his (or his client's) purposes, to dance in the shadows of the law's ambiguities. Rules hold no particular terror for the lawyer, just as the sight of blood holds no terror for the surgeon. Because he operates a system of rules, the lawyer becomes indifferent to them in the way that a doctor becomes indifferent to the humanity of the body that is lying on the operating table. - Jethro Lieberman

The question arises ... whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. - Florynce R. Kennedy

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief. Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave. - Abraham Lincol

We don't operate a system that guarantees a trial lawyer will really know what he or she is doing before handling a trial. Qualify as an attorney and you immediately have the right to screw up somebody's case in court. We lawyers have been left with a huge field in which to demonstrate our incompetence. - Keith Evans

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. - Charles Dickens

When the monetary damages are smaller, lawyers will find themselves less zealous in their pursuit of what they call justice. - Dean O’Hara

Where there's a will, there's a lawyer. - Robert Elliott

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honour consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder. - David Graham Philips