Chinese Law School

The law itself follows gold. - Propertius

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

Justice delayed is justice denied. - William Gladstone

Common sense often makes good law. - William O Douglas

Don't judge a cat by its coat. - Magdalena VandenBerg

A bad compromise beats a good lawsuit. - Saying

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

Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice. - Plato

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams

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

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

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

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

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

Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. - Addison Mizner

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

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. - H.W. Shaw

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore. - Unknown

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. - Clarence Darrow

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

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

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

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

He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J Hunter

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

Washington, D.C.: Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. - Frank Dane

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

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

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. - Victor Hugo

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. - George Savile

Why don't you ever hear of a lawyer getting attacked by a shark at the beach? Professional courtesy. - Thomas F Shubnell

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. - Joseph Addison

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 we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. - Calvin Coolidge

The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict. - G Christopher Ritter

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. - Anton Chekhov

One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. - Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them. - Lyman Abbott