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Lawyers are natural politicians. - Clarence Darrow

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

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. - Stephen King

Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. - Robert Frost

Alimony: the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. - H L Mencken

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. - Henry G Bohn

It's every man's business to see justice done. - Arthur Conan Doyle

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. - Thomas Fuller

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. - African Proverb

Adam was the luckiest man in the world - he had no mother-in-law. - Sholom Aleichem

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. - Thomas More

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. - Confucius

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. - Charles E Hughes

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

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it. - Jean de la Bruyere

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

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. - Immanuel Kant

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. - Steven Wright

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

Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it. - William Penn

Divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. - Robin Williams

My husband and I had our best sex during our divorce. It was like cheating on our lawyers. - Priscilla Lopez

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

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. - Homer Simpson

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire one to tell me how to do what I want to do. - J P Morgan

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller

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

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. - Joyce Carol Oates

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. - Robert Anderson

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery