Law Books Quotes:

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

- Daniel Handler

source: "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

topic: Book, Mean, Law, Law Books

Quotes

You create your own universe as you go along.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Wise, Law Of Attraction, Spirituality, Law Books, Universal Laws

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

topic: Respect, Book, Commitment, Law Books, Mutual Respect

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Mind, Inspirational Buddhist, Spiritual Happiness

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

- Franz Kafka

source: Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

topic: Book, Ignorance, Law, Law Books

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Spiritual, Law Books, Motivation And Determination, Motivation And Drive, Motivational Goal

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

- Marvin Mitchelson

topic: Book, Divorce, Law, Law Books, Divorce Lawyers

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

topic: Book, Fire, Law, Law Books, Hell Fire

There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.

- Martin Luther

topic: Book, Communication, Heart, Love Thy Neighbor, Law Books

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

- Robert H. Jackson

topic: Book, Men, Law, Prosecutor, Law Books

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

topic: Book, Law, Names, Law Books

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

- Davy Crockett

source: Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee”, p.135

topic: Honesty, Book, Men, Law Books, Guide Me

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

- Julius Streicher

topic: Book, Animal, Law, Jewish Law, Law Books

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

- S. R. Ranganathan

source: S. R. Ranganathan (1950). “Colon Classification”

topic: Book, Law, Library, Law Books

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: thedailyhatch.org

topic: Book, Law, Moments, Law Books

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

- Louis Nizer

topic: Morning, Book, Golf, Law Books, Cold Morning

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Law Books, Tithe

And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me...the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of the constitution, that ever was found in an English law-book.

- James Otis

source: "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.