The law locks up both man and woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the great felon loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
Arbuthnot John 1667-1735
The History of John Bull
Law is a bottomless pit.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‘Of Revenge'
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: Romans ch.4v.15
For where no law is, there is no transgression.
Blair Tony 1953-
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.
Boethius 476-524
De Consolatione Philosophiae
Who can give a law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself.
Bond Edward 1934-
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Churchill Charles 1731-1764
The Ghost
Just to the windward of the law.
Ferguson David
Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
France Anatole 1844-1924
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Frankfurter Felix 1882-1965
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
Iolanthe
The law is the true embodiment
Of everything that's excellent.
If has no kind of fault or flaw,
And I, my Lords, embody the Law.
Giraudoux Jean 1882-1944
La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
All of us here know there's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Gorky Maxim 1868-1936
Every new time will give its law.
Hand Learned 1872-1961
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Herbert A.P. 1890-1971
Uncommon Law
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure - the figure of ‘The Reasonable Man'.
Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935
The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.
Jefferson Thomas 1743-1826
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Kennedy John F. 1917-1963
(after appointing his brother Attorney General)
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘Recessional'
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe -
Such boasting as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
The Second Jungle Book ‘Law of the Jungle'
Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
La Fontaine Jean de 1621-1695
Fables ‘L'Ane et le Chien'
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
Llewellyn Karl
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
Lloyd Robert 1733-1764
‘The Law-Student' (of Lord Mansfield)
Alone from Jargon born to rescue Law,
From precedent, grave hum, and formal saw!
To strip chicanery of its vain pretence,
And marry Common Law to Common Sense!