Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Barristers

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

Defend yourselves! If people don't defend their rights, they lose them.

The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.

Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

The most important time in life is the present.

I am in fact more than a dress.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.

All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

There's something seriously wrong with Google. Technologically, they're brilliant, sensational. But morally, its management is completely adolescent. The company is so big and so arrogant, they do whatever they like, they think they are above the law.

I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."

The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result