Do Not Read Law

I do not seek, I find. - Pablo Picasso

What's another word for thesaurus? - Steven Wright

I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn

Facts do not exist, only interpretations. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. - Samuel Butler

To live outside the law, you must be honest. - Bob Dylan

People do not retire. They are retired by others. - Duke Ellington

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. - Jeremy Bentham

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Matsuo Basho

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others. - Confucius

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses. - Lady Gaga

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. - Paul Dirac

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. - Calvin Coolidge

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. - Wallace Stevens

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato