The trouble with law is lawyers.
Interpretation
This quote humorously suggests that the legal profession is complicated by the very people who practice it.
Clarence Darrow's quote, 'The trouble with law is lawyers,' reflects a critical and humorous perspective on the legal system, implying that the complexities and challenges of law are largely due to the actions and interpretations of lawyers themselves. It suggests that rather than simplifying matters of justice, lawyers can complicate proceedings and create obstacles, poking fun at the perceived shortcomings of the legal profession.
In practice
In a conversation about legal troubles, one could say, 'As Clarence Darrow put it, the trouble with law is lawyers.'
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?
Chase after the truth like all hell.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.
You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.
Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
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