Legal Briefs

• A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. — H. L. Mencken
• Nobody but a lawyer can tell legal from illegal, and the lawyers can't tell right from wrong. — Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, "Oath of Fealty"
• Law is a bottomless pit. — John Arbuthnot
• Law means good order. — Aristotle
• Law is a horrible business. — Clarence Darrow
• The law is bigger than money — but only if the law works hard enough. — Thomas E. Dewey
• Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. — Jean Giraudoux