Lawyer’s Pick-up lines

1. A praise undeserved is a slander in disguise2. A legality cannot be countered by another3. He who is silent appears to consent4. Truth sits on the lips of a dying man5. It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.  ~Earl Warren6. This is a court of law, not a court of justice.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.7. Justice is incidental to law and order.  ~John Edgar Hoover8. No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. 

~Isaac Rosenfeld9. Hunger makes a thief of any man.  ~Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a

Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs10. Law never made men a whit more just.  ~Henry David Thoreau11. Poverty is the mother of crime.  ~Marcus Aurelius12. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,

and justice tell me I ought to do.  ~Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

13. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke14. Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as

charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford15. It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart16. War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert17. A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ~Robert Brault18. Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public

opinion. ~Wendell Phillips19. Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial

is the resolution of a dispute. ~Edison Haines20. It is easier to commit murder than to justify it. ~Aemilius Papinianus21. The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. ~Aristotle,

Politics22. Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African

Proverb23. Just because the power is out doesn't mean we unplug the constitution.

~Law and Order, "Darkness"24. Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the

innocent. ~Justinian I, Law Code, A.D. 53525. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout

in the milk. ~Henry David Thoreau26. Every crime is born of necessity. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon27. “LET JUSTICE BE DONE THOUGH THE HEAVENS MAY FALL”28. Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.- Louis XIV29. A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.-

H.W. Beecher30. Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.-

Blackstone31. Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.-Martin Luther

King, Jr.

32. Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.- Aristotle

33. All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures.- Julius Ceasar - Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, J.T. Ramsey ed (1984)

34. Right... is the child of law.- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)35. The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.- Oliver

Wendell Holmes 36. Where law ends, tyranny begins.- William Pitt37. Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason.- J.

Powell38. A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.-

H.W. Beecher39. If you want peace, work for justice- Pope Paul VI40. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and

wrong.- H.L. Menchken41. Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people."-

Blackstone42. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.-

Judge Learned Hand43. The first duty of society is justice.- Alexander Hamilton44. Beware the smoke screen!- Gary Vert45. The law is reason free from passion.-Aristotle46. Our reason is our law.-Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. IX, l. 65247. The sleep of reason produces monsters- Francisco José de Goya y

Lucientes: Los Caprichos [1799]. Plate 4348. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.- Wendell Phillips 49. The law is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant

courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage."50. The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human

experience for the benefit of the public.- Samuel Johnson51. The law must have the last word."- French President Jacques Chirac 52. The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.- Oscar Wilde53. No man is above the law and no man below it.- Theodore Roosevelt54. It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent

one.- Voltaire, Zadig, 174755. Unkindness has no remedy at law."- Thomas Fuller 56. The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one,

and to give everyone his due."- Justinian Code57. They that make laws must not break them.- John Ray58. Ignorance of the law excuses no man, not that all men know the law,

but 'tis an excuse every man will plead and no man can tell how to confute him.- John Selden

59. The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice." Earl Warren

60. Where the law is uncertain, there is no law.61. A lawyer and a wagon wheel must be well greased.62. When law and nature collide, nature usually wins.- Forrest Reynolds

63. You get a reasonable doubt for a reasonable price.-Criminal attorney's saying

64. Lawyers help those who help themselves.65. If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.-Mark

Twain66. Where there is a weak foundation, the work fails. - Debile

fundamentum fallit opus67. God alone, not man, can make an heir. - Deus solus haeredem facere

potest, non homo68. The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. - Dormiunt leges aliquando,

nunquam moriuntur69. The custody of the law is stronger than that of man. - Fortior est

custodia legis quam hominis70. It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. - Fraus est celare fraudem71. We have the best witness, a confessing defendant. - Habemus

optimum testem confitentem reum72. Man is a term of nature, person of the civil law. - Homo vocabulum est

naturae; persona juris civilis73. Wrongs against nature are the most serious. - Peccata contra naturam

sunt gravissima74. He who stices to the letter, sticks to the bark. - Qui haeret in litera,

haeret in cortice75. He who does not disapprove, approves. - Qui non improbat, approbat 76. Whatever is planted in or affixed to the soil, belongs to the soil. -

Quidcquid plantatur solo, solo cedit77. What has no beginning has no end. - Quod non habet principium non

habet finem78. It is the same to say nothing as not to say enough. - Idem nihil dicere

et insufficienter dicere est79. A wrong does not excuse a wrong. - Injuria non excusat injuriam80. Anger is brief insanity. - Ira furor brevis est81. To swear is to call God to witness and is an act of divine worship. -

Jurare est Deum in testem vocare, et est actus divini cultus82. The greater contains the less. - Major continet in se minus83. The people are the greatest master of error. - Maximus magister

erroris populus est84. To lie is to act against the mind. - Mentiri est contra mentem ire85. Negligence always has misfortune for a companion. - Negligentia

semper habet infortuniam comitem86. The safety of the people is the supreme law. - Salus populi est suprema

lex87. A suppression of truth is equivalent to an expression of falsehood. -

Suppressio veri expressio falsi88. Where there is a right there is a remedy. - Ubi jus ibi remedium est89. Deeds are more powerful than words. - Facta sunt potentiora verbis.90. An error not resisted is approved. - Error, qui non resistitur approbatur

91. Delivery makes a deed speak. - Traditio loqui chartam facit

92. That is proved in vain which when proved is not relevant. - Frustra

probatur quod probatum non relevant

93. He is not deceived who knows that he is deceived. - Non decipitur qui scit se decipi 

94. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth - - persistent, persuasive, unrealistic.- John F. Kennedy

95. Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

96. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. Anthony Kennedy

97. Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.- Stephen Breyer

98. I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.- Samuel Alito

99. Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the time

100.The rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. -Sonia Sotomayor

(Source: http://ggreen.com/just-for-fun/famous-quotes-in-law.html retrieved August, 2012)