A young clerk’s responsibilities included bringing the judge a hot cup of coffee at the start of every day. Each morning the judge was enraged that the coffee cup arrived two-thirds full. The clerk explained that he had to rush to get the coffee delivered while it was still hot, which caused him to spill much of it along the way. The law itself follows gold. - Propertius The law is silent during war. - Cicero Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. - French Proverb Lawyers are natural politicians. - Clarence Darrow Don't judge a cat by its coat. - Magdalena VandenBerg The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno Don't judge your taco by its price. - Hunter S. Thompson Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. - Robert Louis Stevenson Coffee,chocolate, men. The richer the better! - Unknown Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. - Stephen King I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. - Oliver North Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution. - Rennard Strickland Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer or an accountant. - Joe Defries It is an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o'. - John Ray Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. - H.W. Shaw A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. - Gerald Jampolsky How many lawyer jokes are there? One, the rest are true stories. - Thomas F Shubnell Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. - Abraham Lincoln Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. - WC Fields The Second Law of Pies: they must be baked, not fried (or boiled, or steamed). - Janet Clarkson The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it. - Jean de la Bruyere I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? - Douglas Adams Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Sophocles It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. - Les Dawson Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. - Edgar Watson Howe The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges. - Anatole France You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts. - Rhonda Byrne Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee, and then after that still don't talk to me. - 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 Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. - Ayn Rand How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. - Joyce Carol Oates 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 When the monetary damages are smaller, lawyers will find themselves less zealous in their pursuit of what they call justice. - Dean O'Hare The question arises: whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. - Florynce R Kennedy 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 Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller 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 When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. - Mary F Berry Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, "Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?" - Alan Alda see also Coffee & Judge Sections Justice Is Blind Legal Assistance For All |
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