Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. Montesquieu.

Laws were made for rogues. It. Pr. 10

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them. Carlyle.

Lawyers and painters can soon make black white. Pr.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. Pr.

Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them. Goldsmith.

Lawyers are needful to keep us out of law. 15 Pr.

Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads. Fr. Pr.

Lawyers, of whose art the basis / Is raising feuds and splitting cases. Butler.

Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of litigants. It. Pr.