Samuel Butler Quotes

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a Harpy that devours everything.

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

There's no certainty in the law.

Judges in our systems decide on concrete facts and not abstract issues.

Law is not a science, but is essentially empirical.

I have come to regard the courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Unprincipled men inflict injuries on others, because the laws are practically not valid against all classes. A transgressor who belongs to the wealthy classes is not punished for his injustice, while a poor man, who does not understand business, undergoes the legal penalty, that is if he does not depart this life before the trial, so long is the course of lawsuits protracted, and so much money is expended on them. The climax of the misery is to have to pay in order to obtain justice. For no one will give a court to the injured man unless he pay a sum of money to the judge and the judge's clerks