Do Not Read Law

Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

What's another word for thesaurus? - Steven Wright

Never read a book that is not a year old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you cannot enforce
Do not command. - Sophocles

What luck for the rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. - Iain D Smith

Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer or an accountant. - Joe Defries

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

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. - Oscar Wilde

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. - Yiddish Proverb

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. - Andre Gide

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. - Billy Graham

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

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. - Indian Proverb

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Neine

I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. - Joseph Addison

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. - Robin Casarjian

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us. - Sukant Ratnakar

I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. - Letitia Landon

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better. - J K Rowling

Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. - Apothegm of Narda

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. - Melvin Belli