Quotes & Jokes about Laws / page 2

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The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor’s degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

A student from the University of Washington has sold his soul on eBay for $400. He's a law student, so he probably doesn't need it, but still, that's not very much. Today, Hillary Clinton said, 'Hey, at least I got some furniture and a Senate seat for mine.'

Whether the reasoning for these laws is insurance costs, more opportunities for random taxation through traffic stops, curbing lost production or any other justification that could be offered, the bottom line is that it isn't governments place. You own your body. No legislation should infringe on that.

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

Fuck that. If it's stupid, change it... If it's a dumb law, don't have it.

All prayers are basically a request: "Please break the laws of the physical universe for my convenience. Amen."

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.