Do Not Read Law

Necessity hath no law. - Oliver Cromwell

I do not seek, I find. - Pablo Picasso

Words do not make flour. - Italian Proverb

Fine words do not produce food. - Nigeria Proverb

Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood

What you cannot enforce
Do not command. - Sophocles

Every man is a volume, if you how to read him. - W. E. Channing

Do not allow loneliness to lower your standards. - Renee Slansky

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac. - Archie Bunker

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. - David Sedaris

You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it. - Harry S Truman

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program. - John F Kennedy

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. - Hubert H Humphrey

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. - Mabel Newcomber

What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology. What's the second? Tautology. What's the third? Tautology. - Richard Steele

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right. - A. A. Milne

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. - James Thurber

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. - Ogden Nash

Secretary: "It must be hard to lose your mother-in-law." WC Fields: "Yes it is, very hard. It's almost impossible." - WC Fields

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. - Mary F Berry