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The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
-Proverb
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The more laws the less justice.
-Proverb
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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
-Proverb
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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.
-Proverb
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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.
-Proverb
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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
-Proverb
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Possession is nine tenths of the law.
-Proverb
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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
-Proverb
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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
-Proverb
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Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
-Anacharsis
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Law is a bottomless pit.
-John Arbuthnot
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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.
-Hannah Arendt
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The law is reason, free from passion.
-Aristotle
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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.
-Asoka
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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
-Azarias
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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
-Francis Bacon
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
-Walter Bagehot
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Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
-Fr
The Law
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Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
-Ward Becker
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
-Jeremy Bentham
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jeremy Bentham
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Where there is no law there is no transgression.
-Bible
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The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
-Helen P. Blavatsky
The Voice of the Silence
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This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.
-Helen P. Blavatsky
Secret Doctrine, Vol II, pg. 304-05
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Books about Law
