Every Man Should Get One

Necessity hath no law. - Oliver Cromwell

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. - John Locke

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

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

Lawsuits: Clothes worn by an attorney - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

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

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller

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

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. - Oliver North

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus

Law of Inflation: Whatever goes up will go up some more. - Kin Hubbard

Justice is a law of nature rarely found in human affairs. - Unknown

Don't judge me. I was born to be awesome, not perfect. - Unknown

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens

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

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius

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

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

My wife and I are getting remarried. Our divorce didn't work out. - Rodney Dangerfield

Lawyers are men who will swear black is white, if they are paid for it. - Edward Counsel

Lawyers are just like physicians: what one says, the other contradicts. - Sholom Aleichem

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. - WC Fields

The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes

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

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. - Elizabeth C Stanton

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

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie

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

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

Zymurgy’s Law of Volunteer Labour: People are always available for work in the past tense - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes. - Billy Connolly

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

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

The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honour, who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?" - Steven Wright

There is only one categorical imperative: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law. - Immanuel Kant