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Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten to one that side is cast.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

I have forgotten more law than you ever knew, but allow me to say, I have not forgotten much.