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Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

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

Trudeau: Yes well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well just watch me. . . ."

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled undisciplined feeling.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.