Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it
breeds contempt for the law.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Law and institutions must go hand in hand with
the progress of the human mind.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Ade's Law - "Anybody can win -- unless there happens to be a second
entry."
- George Ade
Ettore's Law - "The other line moves faster."
- Barbara Ettore
Truman's Law - "If you can't convince them, confuse them."
- Harry S. Truman
Barnum's Law - "You can fool most of the people most of the time."
- P. T. Barnum
It was the old notion that justice should not arise from laws, but
laws from justice.
- Joseph Joubert
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are
broken.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Benjamin Franklin
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the
lawyers in the first place.
- Lord Halifax
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
- Samuel Butler
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many
lawyers?
- Calvin Trillin
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of
justice must pass.
- Jane Bryant Quinn
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
- Erik Pepke
There are three reasons why lawyers are being used more and more in
scientific experiments. First, every year there are more of them
around. Second, lab assistants don't get attached to them. And,
third, there are some things that rats just won't do.
- Unknown
Gomez' Law -- If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.
- Lefty Gomez
Peter's Law -- The unexpected always happens.
- Laurence J. Peter
Coolidge's Law -- A lost article invariable shows up after you
replace it.
- Calvin Coolidge
Tuchman's Law -- If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power,
with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising
arrangements, corrupts even more.
- Barbara Tuchman
Coolidge's Law -- Anytime you don't want anything, you get it.
- Calvin Coolidge
Gate's Law -- If there isn't a law, there will be.
- W. I. E. Gates
Clopton's Law -- For ever credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
- Richard Clopton
Levenson's Law -- No matter how well a toupee blends in back, it
always looks like hell in front.
- Sam Levenson
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