Lawyer s pick-up lines

1. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." - Oliver We
ndell Holmes
2. "Where law ends, tyranny begins." - William Pitt
3. "Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason." - J
. Powell
4. "Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns." - Louis XIV
5. "A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it."
- H.W. Beecher
6. "If you want peace, work for justice" - Pope Paul VI
7. "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wron
g." - H.L. Menchken
8. "Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people." - Blackstone
9. "Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King,
Jr.
10. "All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures." - Julius Ceasar - Sall
ust's Bellum Catilinae, J.T. Ramsey ed (1984)
11. "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
.." - Judge Learned Hand
12. "I think the first duty of society is justice." - Alexander Hamilton
13. "Right... is the child of law." - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
14. "Come now, and let us reason together . . ." - The Song of Solomon

Isaiah

15. "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
." - Author Unknown
16. "The law is reason free from passion." -Aristotle
17. "our reason is our law." -Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. IX, l. 652
18. "Man is a reasoning animal." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Epistles, 41,8
19. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King
, Jr.
20. "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the diff
erence between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain
21. "The law must have the last word." - French President Jacques Chirac in resp
onse to rioters in France November 6, 2005
22. "No man is above the law and no man below it." - Theodore Roosevelt
23. "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one
." - Voltaire, Zadig, 1747

24. "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - deliberate, cont
rived and dishonest, but the myth - - persistent, persuasive, unrealistic." - Jo
hn F. Kennedy
25. "Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going undergrou
nd. Our defense is in law and order." - Albert Einstein
26. "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one
." - Voltaire, Zadig, 1747
27. "Unkindness has no remedy at law." - Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734) comp., Gnom
ologia: Adages and Proverbs,5402, 1732.
28. "They that make laws must not break them." - John Ray (1628 - 1705). Comp.,
A Collection of English Proverbs, p. 166, 1678.
29. "Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice" Proverbs 13:10
30. "They do tricks even I can't figure out." -Harry Houdini
31. "If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." - Thomas Je
fferson, Letter to James Madison, 15 Mar. 1789, in Papers of Thomas Jefferson 14
:660 (Julian P. Boyd ed. 1958)
32. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
33. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with i
mportant matters. - Albert Einstein
34. In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and sm
all problems, for issues concerning people are all the same. - Albert Einstein
35. Men of few words are the best men. - William Shakespeare 36. "Good manners w
ill open doors that the best education cannot." Clarence Thomas 37. "It's not th
e heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law." Sonia Sotomayor 38. "E
very citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants." Stephen
Breyer 39. "There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution somet
imes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us al
l." Antonin Scalia 40. "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take accoun
t of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we
must treat them differently." Harry Blackmun 41. "It is not our job to apply la
ws that have not yet been written." John Paul Stevens 42. "the interest in encou
raging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical b
ut unproven benefit of censorship." John Paul Stevens 43. "Our love cannot be me
asured, it just is." John Paul Stevens 44. "Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ag
o were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong." Harry B
lackmun 45. "Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law
is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford." Arthur J Goldberg 46. "The gov
ernment must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion." John Paul
Stevens 47. "The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the
intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution
's protection of privacy." Harry Blackmun 48. "Whether born from experience or i
nherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins ma
y and will make a difference in our judging." Sonia Sotomayor 49. "What is a mod
erate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what
you'd like it to mean?" Antonin Scalia 50. "As the Constitution endures, persons
in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater f
reedom." Anthony Kennedy 51. "Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions
will be decided by the public." Stephen Breyer 52. "I have been committed to ca

rrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all app
licable rules of ethics and canons of conduct." Samuel Alito 53. "Judges rule on
the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to
pressures of the times." Warren E Burger 54. "I firmly believe in the rule of l
aw as the foundation for all of our basic rights." Sonia Sotomayor Source: Speec
h on being nominated to the Supreme Court - May 26th 2009 55. "In recognizing th
e humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." Thurgood
Marshall 56. "Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen." Warren E Bur
ger 57. "Women will only have true equality when men share with them the respons
ibility of bringing up the next generation." Ruth Bader Ginsburg 58. "The Ten Co
mmandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people," R
uth Bader Ginsburg 59. "I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." H
arry Blackmun 60. "You can make an exception without the sky falling," Antonin S
calia 61. "over my dead body." Antonin Scalia 62. "Dissents speak to a future ag
e." Ruth Bader Ginsburg 63. "Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you wa
nt." Stephen Breyer 64. "A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose no
thing but the bottom of a turntable." Antonin Scalia 65. "We apply law to facts.
We don't apply feelings to facts." Sonia Sotomayor 66. "In seeking rational exp
lanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse," Anthony Kenne
dy 67. "There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for a
dvocacy and time for first principles." Anthony Kennedy 68. "Money is property;
it is not speech." John Paul Stevens 69. "Sometimes history takes things into it
s own hands." Thurgood Marshall
70. "Consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason." J. Powell
71. "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham L
incoln
72. "Very few souls are saved after the first five minutes of the sermon." - Mar
k Twain
73. "Judicial reform is no sport for the short-winded." - Arthur T. Vanderbuilt
74. "Simple is good." - Jim Henson
75. "If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end." -Mark Twain
76. "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A.J. Liebl
ing, "The Wayward Press: Do you belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 14 May 1960,
at 105, 109
77. "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." - Willia
m O. Douglas, Public Utilities Comm'n v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (disse
nting)
78. "Equal Justice Under Law." - Inscription on West Portico of Supreme Court Bu
ilding, Washington, D.C.
79. "Justice the Guardian of Liberty." - Inscription on East Portico of Supreme
Court Building, Washington, D.C.
80. "We will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal
81. A tree while it grows, wood when it cannot grow. - Arbor dum crescit; lignum
cum crescere nescit
82. Where there is a weak foundation, the work fails. - Debile fundamentum falli
t opus

83. God alone, not man, can make an heir. - Deus solus haeredem facere potest, n
on homo
84. The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. - Dormiunt leges aliquando, nunquam
moriuntur
85. The custody of the law is stronger than that of man. - Fortior est custodia
legis quam hominis
86. It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. - Fraus est celare fraudem
87. We have the best witness, a confessing defendant. - Habemus optimum testem c
onfitentem reum
88. Man is a term of nature, person of the civil law. - Homo vocabulum est natur
ae; persona juris civilis
89. It is the same to say nothing as not to say enough. - Idem nihil dicere et i
nsufficienter dicere est
90. A wrong does not excuse a wrong. - Injuria non excusat injuriam
91. Anger is brief insanity. - Ira furor brevis est
92. To swear is to call God to witness and is an act of divine worship. - Jurare
est Deum in testem vocare, et est actus divini cultus
93. The greater contains the less. - Major continet in se minus
94. The people are the greatest master of error. - Maximus magister erroris popu
lus est
95. To lie is to act against the mind. - Mentiri est contra mentem ire
96. Negligence always has misfortune for a companion. - Negligentia semper habet
infortuniam comitem
97. He is not deceived who knows that he is deceived. - Non decipitur qui scit s
e decipi
98. Wrongs against nature are the most serious. - Peccata contra naturam sunt gr
avissima
99. He who stices to the letter, sticks to the bark. - Qui haeret in litera, hae
ret in cortice
100.He who does not disapprove, approves. - Qui non improbat, approbat
101.Whatever is planted in or affixed to the soil, belongs to the soil. - Quidcq
uid plantatur solo, solo cedit
102.What has no beginning has no end. - Quod non habet principium non habet fine
m
103.The safety of the people is the supreme law. - Salus populi est suprema lex
104.A suppression of truth is equivalent to an expression of falsehood. - Suppre
ssio veri expressio falsi

105.Where there is a right there is a remedy. - Ubi jus ibi remedium est
106.Deeds are more powerful than words. - Facta sunt potentiora verbis.
107. An error not resisted is approved. - Error, qui non resistitur approbatur
108. Delivery makes a deed speak. - Traditio loqui chartam facit
109. That is proved in vain which when proved is not relevant. - Frustra probatu
r quod probatum non relevant