Legal sayings

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◆ Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

- Honore de Balzac99

◆ Advertising is legalized lying.

- H. G. Wells99

◆ The more laws, the less justice.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ Justice delayed is justice denied.

- William E. Gladstone99

◆ Common sense often makes good law.

- William O. Douglas99

◆ Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ The trouble with law is lawyers.

- Clarence Darrow99

◆ People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

- Norman Ralph Augustine99

◆ It is legal because I wish it.

- Louis XIV99

◆ Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

- Jeremy Bentham99

◆ Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

- Jean de la Bruyere99

◆ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

- Joseph Conrad99

◆ In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

- Samuel Butler99

◆ Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

- Addison Mizner99

◆ The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

- Christopher Darden99