Law Quotes - Page 14

• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Attorney, Uncertainty, Law Students

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected”, p.429

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• There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

  Alfred Adler

  Love, Men, Years

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• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Boards, Pay

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• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Robert Frost

  Successful, Feet, Worn

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• Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Liberty, Useless

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Treatise by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Ch. 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of Laws, 1748.

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• Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Science, Divinity, Physics

  1970 Do WhatYou Will,'The Summing-Up: Meredith Dawe'.

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• I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Mother, Witty

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• Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

  Marquis de Sade

  Country, Passion, Literature

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• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

  H. L. Mencken

  Pockets, Faces, Hocus Pocus

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  Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  Malcolm X

  Respect, Peace, Hands

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

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• Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.

  Tsung-Dao Lee

  Nature, Powerful, Science

  "Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory: Revised and Updated First Edition". Book by Tsung-Dao Lee, 1981.

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• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Carpe Diem, Liberty

  Speech at the Guildhall, Bristol, England, 6 Sept. 1780

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• A government of laws, and not of men.

  John Adams

  Men, Presidential, Judicial Power

  "Novanglus Papers" no. 7 (1774). Almost certainly derived from James Harrington, but Adams's use of the phrase gave it wide circulation in the United States. He also used "government of laws, and not of men" in the Declaration of Rights drafted for the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780. See Cox 1; Gerald Ford 3; James Harrington 1

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Political, Presidential

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  Charles Lamb

  Two Sides, Feet, Attorney

  Charles Lamb (1848). “Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd”, p.108

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

  John Arbuthnot

  Science, Pits, Harpies

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  Mae West

  Long, Cracks, Enforcement

  Every Day's a Holiday (motion picture) (1937)

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• Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

  Solon

  Fall, Break Through, Cynical

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• Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

  Carrie Nation

  Bad Laws, Ifs

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