Legal Grounds

Lawyers are merchants of misery. - Nancy Levit

Common sense often makes good law. - William O Douglas

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero

Do you not know that I am above the law? - James II

Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying

Coffee,chocolate, men. The richer the better! - Unknown

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

We are never to judge a philosophy by its abuse. - Augustine

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. - Robert Christy

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. - Roscoe Pound

Law of the Supermarket: The other line moves faster. - Unknown

Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice. - Richard L Abel

Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer or an accountant. - Joe Defries

Justice is a law of nature rarely found in human affairs. - Unknown

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. - Abraham Lincoln

Don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you. - Unknown

Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. - Karen M Moning

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men. - Gregory E Lang

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

People who use lawyers are not people you would really want to hang around with. - Deborah Ross

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. - Les Dawson

I just want a hot cup of coffee, black, and I don't want to hear about your troubles. - Charles Bukowski

If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. - Edgar Watson Howe

The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

The law was made for one thing alone - for the exploitation of those who don't understand it. - Bertoit Brecht

You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts. - Rhonda Byrne

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

There's a lot of fake people in the world, but before you judge them, make sure you're not one of them. - Unknown

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation. - Warren E. Burger

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. - Denis Diderot

Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. - Tim Allen

The Post Office just recalled their newest stamps. They had a picture of lawyers on them, and people couldn't figure out which side to spit on. - Marvin Lebman

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers: you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda