Legal Grounds

Necessity hath no law. - Oliver Cromwell

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

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

The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno

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

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. - Steven Wright

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A flagrant violation of international law. - Unknown

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller

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

When coffee dreams, it dreams of chocolate. - Unknown

Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying

To live outside the law, you must be honest. - Bob Dylan

I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent. - Anna Kendrick

Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law. - Unknown

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

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T S Eliot

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

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

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare

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

I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests. - Rob Dyrdek

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

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

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. - Abraham Lincoln

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo

What would life be without coffee? But then, what is it even with coffee? - King Louis XV

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

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

I know that this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law. - Bugs Bunny

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

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson

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

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. - Les Dawson

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

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend. - St. Augustine

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements form becoming big ones. - Harvey Mackay

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. - Calvin Coolidge

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

A giraffe's coffee would be cold by the time it reached the bottom of its throat. Ever think about that? No. You only think about yourself. - Unknown

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