| Author |
Quotes |
| Paul Dickson | Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. |
| Paul Dickson | Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. |
| Paul Dickson | All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. |
| Paul Dickson | Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. |
| Paul Dickson | Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. |
| Porterfield | The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little. |
| Propertius | The law itself follows gold. |
| Putt s Law | Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. |
| Robert Bolt | The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. |
| Robert Burton | Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. |
| Robert Frost | A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. |
| Robert Frost | A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman. |
| Ronals Reagan | Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. |
| Roscoe Pound | The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. |
| Samuel Butler | Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools. |
| Samuel Butler | Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten to one that side is cast. |
| Senator Paul Simon | Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society. |
| Susan C Ross | For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries. |
| Suzanne La Follette | Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. |
| Tacitus | The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. |
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