Imaginethepositionofthemodernarchitect.Picturethe young fellow to be put into a 'profession' because trade is considered beneath him (another antiquarian prejudice).The young fellow hasn't exactly got a legal mind, like father; he's not much good at essays, so he can't write; he faints at the sight of blood so can't be a doctor. What isthere for him to do? Architecture of course.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  First and Last Loves.

OG = PLR ¿ AEB: the opportunity for graft equals the plethora of legal requirementsmultiplied by thenumber of architects, engineers and builders.

-Birns, Harold
  Formula for bribery in building and housing codes. In the NewYork Times, 2 Oct.

A legal gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.

-Vaux
His definitionof a lawyer. Quoted in Richard Fountain The Wit of the Wig (1968).

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art† The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

-Dewey,John
  Art as Experience.

The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign† They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.

-Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Autobiography (published1847).

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, themore strictlyand heavilyand cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

-Wolf, Naomi
  The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.