Laws, like houses, lean on one another -Edmund Burke. Law should be like death, which spares no one -Charles de Secondat Montesquieu. Here are some examples: “Laws, like cobwebs, entangle the weak, but are broken by the strong ” “Laws are like spiders’ webs, so that the great buzzing bees break through, and the little feeble flies hang fast in them” (Henry Smith) “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through” (Jonathan Swift) “Laws, like cobwebs, catch small flies, great ones break through before your eyes” (Benjamin Franklin) “Laws, like the spider’s web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free” (Spanish proverb). 
The spiders’ web comparison to the law has been much used and modified. (Written) laws are like spiders’ webs they hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but are torn in pieces by the rich and powerful -Anarchis.Laws and institutions … like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time -Henry Ward Beecher.In Garrett’s historical novel, Death of the Fox, this simile is voiced by Sir Francis Bacon. The law often dances like an old fishwife in wooden shoes, with little grace and less dispatch -George Garrett.Law is like pregnancy, a little of either being a dangerous thing -Robert Traver.The law is like apparel which alters with the time -Sir John Doddridge.The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket -Charles Macklin.
Law is a form of order, and good law must necessarily mean good order -Aristotle. Law is a bottomless pit -John ArbuthnotĪrbuthnot continues as follows: “It is a cormorant, a harpy that devours everything!”. Justice Holmes expanded on his simile as follows: “For great cases are called great not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.” Great cases like hard cases make bad law -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The original in Billings’ popular dialect form reads as follows: “Going tew law iz like skinning a new milch …. 
Going to law is like skinning a new milk cow for the hide, and giving the meat to the lawyers -Josh Billings.Exact laws, like all the other ultimates and absolutes, are as fabulous as the crock of gold at the rainbow’s end -G.Corpuses, statutes, rights and equities are passed on like congenital disease -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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