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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
CARLO COLLODI
The defendants have great lawyers, and great lawyers have to be good storytellers.
DAVID BERG
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
CARLO COLLODI
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't e...
AYN RAND
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
MARK TWAIN
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I used to want to be a Lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
MAX WALKER
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
GEORGE SAVILE
The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.
ROBERT SCHMITT
Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large thin...
SOLON
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed
RENE DESCARTES
A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants ...
JEAN KERR
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
ROY M. COHN
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Come when you're called And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you And you'll never be chid
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, ...
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not identical.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
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I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't ...
JIMMY CARTER
Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers
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A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept
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Laws do not persuade because they threaten
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Law is an ass, an idiot.
CHARLES DICKENS
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
ROY M. COHN
Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him.
JOHN PAUL JONES
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
JOHN MILTON
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass
JANE BRYANT QUINN
The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients
PROVERB
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
DEREK BOK
A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break
CHARLES JOHN DARLING
The law is above the law, you know
DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS
The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock.
EDWARD PACKARD, JR.
Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.
JANE BRYANT QUINN
You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
LARRY WALL
When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - t...
JUDGE CURTIS BOK
I was thinking, maybe, the child was still alive.
JOHN SMITH
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Some people still don't realize how much and how easily they can save on their long-distance bills.
BILL HARDEKOPF
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROW
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries
CLARENCE DARROW
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Bills have been held up and people have been pressured.
ALEX VILLALOBOS
You can get rid of those utility bills. They have no long-term value. As soon as we throw them away,...
DENIECE SCHOFIELD
Rock 'n' roll doesn't always pay the bills, and I've been interested in bars - obviously - for a lon...
GREG DULLI
and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.
TOM WAITS
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and ...
JOHN ADAMS
We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
ROY M. COHN
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he ...
JOHN SMITH
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her ...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
Our system is not one of justice, but of law
EDNA BUCHANAN
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a con...
LUCILLE KALLEN
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
GRETA GARBO
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of or...
EDMUND BURKE
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced
ELBERT HUBBARD
For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intellige...
JOHN LOCKE
He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
PROVERB
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right sho...
MARIA EDGEWORTH
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and ...
JIMMY CARTER
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how th...
HART POMERANTZ
The law is silent during war
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant. instead of my master.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Law never made men a whit more just.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he c...
DR. CECIL VAUGHN
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go roun...
FRED RODELL
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
LARRY WALL
I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
LARRY WALL
Beauty? What's that?
LARRY WALL
I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN
Our guys are making so many strides. They're understanding the game better. ... But they're still le...
JOHN SMITH
Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The days when they were paying for limo rides to Bills' games are thankfully long gone.
NANCY ADAMS
If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot. Japanese Proverb
BOHDI SANDERS
I've heard pileated woodpeckers make that kind of sound; I've heard crows make that kind of sound in...
JEROME JACKSON
You'll have to ask his lawyers.
BOB NEY
Lawyers have dangerous job in Iran
SHIRIN EBADI
Do you actually have lawyers here?
CYRUS KAR
I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with la...
JANET RENO
The 15 defendants did not have independent lawyers, they had state-appointed lawyers, who [reportedl...
TOLIB YAKUBOV
Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyer...
KEN STARR
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Average price rises are being continually pushed up and it won't be long before we see £1,000 energ...
ADAM SCORER
Lawyers tend to have something credible to say about an important subject. Lawyers have been educate...
EUGENE VOLOKH

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