Legal Grounds

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers

Position is nine-tenths of the law. - Archie Bunker

The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno

Don't judge folks by their relatives. - Unknown

Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B McKay

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. - Samuel Butler

Step aside Coffee. This is a job for Alcohol. - Unknown

Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law. - Unknown

Keep skunks, bankers and lawyers at a distance. - Unknown

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

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

Somebody must get the incompetent lawyers and doctors. - George Bernard Shaw

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. - Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer. - Unknown

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. - Yiddish Proverb

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. - Alphonse Allais

Coffee and chocolate - the inventor of mocha should be sainted. - Cherise Sinclair

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

Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying. - Leo Reilly

You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it. - Harry S Truman

Lawyers are like beavers. They get in the mainstream and dam it up. - John Naisbitt

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

Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. - Native American Proverb

A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe. - Robert Christy

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn

I never drink coffee at lunch - I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. - Ronald Reagan

The Second Law of Pies: they must be baked, not fried (or boiled, or steamed). - Janet Clarkson

A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. - Patrick Murray

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. - David Mellor

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. - Nelson Mandela

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges. - Anatole France

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. - Felix G Rohatyn

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine

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 never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli

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

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. - Sinclair Lewis

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it. - Scott Adams

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

Honest and peace-loving people shun the Courts and are prepared to suffer loss rather than fall into a Lawyer's clutches. - Peter De Noronha

A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge, stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands. - Neil Gorsuch

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France