Legal Grounds

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. - French Proverb

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero

Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B McKay

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

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

Leanardo De Cappuccino: Founder, coffee shop chain - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Good lawyers know the law. Great lawyers know the judge. - Unknown

Depresso: The feeling you get when you run out of coffee - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. - Dalai Lama

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

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

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

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

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

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. - Thomas Jefferson

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. - Thomas Aquinas

If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. - Edgar Watson Howe

The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying

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

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. - Nelson Mandela

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

The law was made for one thing alone - for the exploitation of those who don't understand it. - Bertoit Brecht

Most of the dishonest lawyers are the product of dishonest clients - the demand creates the supply. - Morris Salem

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen

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

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

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown

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

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

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

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

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer. - Lani Guinier

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France

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