John Arbuthnot Quotes

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

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.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

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

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Law is largely crystallized custom.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

The study of law is, after all, largely the study of history.

Justice is determined by the personality of the judges.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

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.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

The more laws, the less justice.

I enjoyed practicing law.

Litigation solves everything.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

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

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.