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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Chinese proverb
In spite of all the critics say, the infallible way of inducing
a sense of wrongdoing is by making laws.
William Bolitho
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law is like
sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Dilwyn
The Jews ruin themselves at their passovers; the Moors at their
marriages; and the Christians in their lawsuits.
Spanish proverb
The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients.
The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law are like two
men ducking their heads in a bucket and daring each other to
remain longest under water.
Johnson
These written laws are just like spiders' webs; the small and
feeble may be caught and entangled in them, but the rich and
mighty force through and despise them.
Anacharsis
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two
cats.
Franklin
Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, a harpy, that
devours everything.
Arbuthnot
In law nothing is certain except the expense.
S. Butler
The law is past depth to those who, without heed, do plunge
into it.
Shakespeare
A mouse-trap; easy to get into but not easy to get out of.
Balfour
Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of
shears; they cut what comes between them, but not each other.
Adversaries in law strive mightly, but eat and drink as
friends.
Shakespeare
There is no country in the world in which everything can be
provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions
can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
De Tocqueville
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most
multiplied.
Tacitus
Let but the public mind once become thoroughly corrupt, and all
attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of
laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed
notices in an orchard to keep off canker-worms.
Horace Mann
With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm,
living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and
statues were waste paper, lacking all executive force.
Windell Phillips
Laws were made to restrain and punish the wicked; the wise and
good do not need them as a guide, but only as a shield against
rapine and oppression; they can live civilly and orderly,
though there were no laws in the world.
Feltham
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