I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
Norman LammI tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
Bill ClintonIn point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein VeblenThe United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank ZappaI take a dim view of the idea that any right-minded lawyer can immediately detect which side of a legislative, regulatory or litigation issue is the public interest side and that right-minded lawyers should decline to represent anyone representing a different side.
Lloyd Norton CutlerLiberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles MontesquieuI can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
Les DawsonAcceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics
Terry RileyThe unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders. [On his London neighbours Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Jonny Lee Miller]
Sean PertweeI am ashamed the law is such an ass.
George ChapmanI feel like the nanny trying to calm down the kids. It looks like mum and dad are splitting up and nobody likes that. I hope they get back together. They are the two people who give me stability but they are bickering away like they want a divorce and I'm not going to be their lawyer
Ian HollowayThey proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?
Ayn RandI am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
Isambard Kingdom BrunelCustom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles DavenportThe absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock EllisI submit that 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 JrMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S LewisLaw is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and suggests forms of bias
Diane B SchulderThe power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy BenthamThe screening process through which law firms choose new partners is perhaps as well considered as anything this side of a papal election.
Neal JohnstonLawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles LambNature, red in tooth and claw.
Alfred Lord TennysonMy mother-in-law! If she lived in India, she’d be sacred. She’s like Boris Karloff after a busy night at the graveyard.
Bill TarmeyThere is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.
Geoffrey FisherPray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose BierceA lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Sir Walter ScottWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon JohnsonI hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
E Lynn LintonA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Henry L MenckenSubstantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
John TurnerIt's round the world I've travelled;
it's round the world I've roamed;
but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home.
Woody GuthrieOn shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.
Colin FarrellWriting has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
Truman CapoteAvoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean De La BruyereThere is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles DarwinMy father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
Jason MercheyI had mixed feelings - like watching my mother in law drive over a cliff in your car.
Terry VenablesI think it's gonna be a lot of lawyers sitting in a room trying to thrash out a deal before it will ever happen [on the Hobbit]
Peter JacksonFor the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric AmblerMicrosoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin HatchForbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QuintilianThe law cannot equalize men in spite of Nature.
Luc De VauvanarguesWriting is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLilloAnd have they fixed the where and when?
And shall Trelawney die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen
Will know the reason why!
Robert Stephen HawkerThis is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;
That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.
Robert ServiceOn Thursday [when the game of croquet took place] the deputy prime minister was not standing in for the prime minister.
He stands in for him only when he goes on holiday. He went on holiday on Saturday.
This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]
Paul ClarkLaw is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai StevensonVariability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler'It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.'
Meg RyanThose who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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