Legal proverbs that every law student or professional should know

As a law student or a professional, you should always remember some proverbs. Some of them will inspire you, some will provide you give you an idea, some may also provide you with a solution.

There may be thousands of proverbs regarding law and justice. But our team have picked up the right one just for you. Here is a list of some legal proverbs that every law student or professional should know:

• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.     Martin Luther King, Jr
• The more laws the less justice. ~ Traditional Proverb
• “The safety of the people shall be the highest law.  Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Win your lawsuit and lose your money. ~ Chinese Proverb
• When violence comes into the house, law and justice leave through the chimney. ~ Turkish Proverbs
• Laws, like the spider’s web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free. ~ Spanish Proverbs
•  A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer’s garden. ~ Italian Proverbs
• Go to the law for a sheep and lose your cow. ~ German Proverb
• Where there are no laws, they can’t be broken. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
• Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers. ~ Czech Proverb
• The law says what the king pleases. ~ French Proverb
• Settling a dispute through the law is like losing a cow for the sake of a cat. ~ Chinese Proverb
• The trouble with the law is lawyers. ~ Clarence Darrow
• I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. ~ David Dinkins
• Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. ~ Ambrose Bierce
• In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ~ Samuel Butler
• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ~ Addison Mizner
• Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~Walter Savage Landor
• Law is a bottomless pit. ~ John Arbuthnot
• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
• Preachers purge the conscience, doctors the body, lawyers the purse. – German
• Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best. –Polish Proverb
• It is better to be a mouse in a cat’s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands. –Spanish Proverb
• One lawyer makes work for another. –Spanish Proverb
• The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong from always having their way. – Ovid
• The good of the people is the greatest law. – Cicero
• Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke
• It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. – Former US President Theodore Roosevelt
• Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. – Martial
• A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. – Voltaire
• When the state is most corrupt, the laws are most multiplied. – Tacitus
• Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that power alone will we submit. – Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman
• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. – Anonymous
• The more law the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller
• Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children’s liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation. – Abraham Lincoln
• No man is above the law, and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. – President Theodore Roosevelt

• One hour of justice is worth seventy hours of prayer. –Turkish Proverb
• The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.  –Welsh Proverb
• Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. –Danish Proverb
• New laws are followed by new tricks.  – German
• “Virtue is in the middle,” said the devil, as he sat down between two lawyers.  – Danish
• When God wanted to chastise man He invented lawyers.  – Russian
• Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick-skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. – David Mellor