A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
The law does not concern itself about trifles.
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should assist in explaining the m...
The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey t...
You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to ...
'L.A. Law' has been a bit of a blessing and a curse. First of all, it was a very prestigious show that had a lot of intellect, and I was the pretty boy. I've had to battle that my whole career: 'Oh, you were the face guy. You didn't really have to ac...
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old...
Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
I am remembering it now.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law
Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.
