Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
You are as welcome as the flowers in May.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. - Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus. " - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
Faction before blood.