Legal Grounds

The law itself follows gold. - Propertius

Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

The trouble with law is lawyers. - Clarence Darrow

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

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

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

What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator. - Marvin Lebman

Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution. - Rennard Strickland

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

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

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

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

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

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. - Alphonse Allais

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

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken

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

Adam was the luckiest man in the world - he had no mother-in-law. - Sholom Aleichem

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

Lawyers are a bad lot... They cheat their living out of honest people. - Albert R Carman

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

True friends don't judge each other, they judge other people together. - Unknown

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers. - Richard Pryor

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

You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. - Joseph H Choate

A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men. - Gregory E Lang

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

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

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

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

Jitterbug: 1. A Scotchman in front of a pay toilet; 2. Insect that's had too much coffee. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. - Junius

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

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself. - Henry P Brougham

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F Kennedy

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller

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

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

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

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

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

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 nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy

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 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

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