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A bad compromise beats a good lawsuit. - Saying

OK, if you can get an indepartial judge. - Archie Bunker

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

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

Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. - Potter Stewart

Alimony is always having to say you're sorry. - Philip Simborg

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

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

Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke. - Robin Hall

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx

Stop soft soapin' and trying to deterge the judge! - Archie Bunker

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

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. - Herbert Spencer

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind. - Nancy Gibbs

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for. - Unknown

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

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. - Ralph Nader

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

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

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. - S.I. Hayakawa

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. - Sally Field

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm

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

A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

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

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

Lawyers are like foxes, small and innocuous, but all the time stealthily sniffing the air. - Michael O'Sullivan

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. - Lewis G. Janes

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

Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves. - Charles C Colton

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

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen

The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end. - John B O'Reilly

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. - Hubert H Humphrey

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. - Ayn Rand

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

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

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

The denial of an objective moral law based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God results ultimately in the denial of evil itself. - Ravi Zacharias

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Lawyers are doubters, skeptics; not in a bad sense. But they never know any thing absolutely and utterly without qualifications or modifications. - G N Tillman

What we lawyers want to do is to substitute courts for carnage, dockets for rockets, briefs for bombs, warrants for warheads, mandates for missiles. - George Rhyne