<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Law - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63836]]></link><description><![CDATA[People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where law ends, tyranny begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where law ends, tyranny begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24317]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24292]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24294]]></link><description><![CDATA[How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petty laws breed great crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petty laws breed great crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24283]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24283</guid></item></channel></rss>