George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

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

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.