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Quotes About Legal

If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?
~ George Carlin
As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.
~ Groucho Marx
Come, agree, the law's costly.
~ Jonathan Swift
I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.
~ Dean Spade
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
~ Gore Vidal
Roger Ebert has had his right thumb trademarked. Now the police will actually have to pay him if he ever has to give a thumbprint.
~ Unknown
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
~ Groucho Marx
You don't know a women till you've met her in court.
~ Norman Mailer
What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the abscence of panic and exaggeration the quiet insistence on legal processes as opposed to trial by suspicion. McCarthyism so repelled the English that they take special care not to be infected by it.
~ Martha Gellhorn
humans and augmented humans can't sign away their rights to their labor or bodily autonomy in perpetuity; that's like, straight-up illegal.)
~ Martha Wells
The reasoning behind the new law was that if liquor was made legal, we'd have fewer accidents.
~ Mary Brave Bird
You don't know a woman until you have met her in court.
~ Norman Mailer
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
~ Anonymous
DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.
~ Anonymous
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
~ Shana Alexander
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.
~ Richard Pryor
The defendant. For three weeks, everyone in this courtroom had referred to her as "the defendant." Not Casey. Not her given name, Katherine Carter. Certainly not Mrs. Hunter Raleigh III, the name she would have taken by now if everything had been different. In this room, she'd been treated as a legal term, not as a real person, a person who had loved Hunter more deeply than she'd ever thought possible.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Too often, religions think that unless religious people are allowed special powers and privileges to advance religion and affect the lives of many people outside of church, they are not getting legal equality.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
~ Matt Dillon
Renaissance of Roman Law was overcome by the power of the great legal corporations
~ Max Weber
I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.
~ Melanie Brown
I don't favor institutional capital punishment
~ Unknown
I'm for hire. I'll defend anyone who comes to me.
~ Unknown
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
~ Michael Bloomberg