Legal Grounds

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

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

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

How I feel when there is no coffee? DEPRESSO - Unknown

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

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer or an accountant. - Joe Defries

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

Coffee and chocolate - the inventor of mocha should be sainted. - Cherise Sinclair

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

Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying. - Leo Reilly

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

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. - Thomas More

Without my morning coffee, I'm just like a dried-up piece of goat. - J.S. Bach

All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for a loaf of bread. - Josh Billings

I never drink coffee at lunch - I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. - Ronald Reagan

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

How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? How many can you afford? - Blanche Knott

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

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

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

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

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

Lawyers are like foxes, small and innocuous, but all the time stealthily sniffing the air. - Michael O'Sullivan

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

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers. - Ken Alstad

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

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

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

Lawyers are like painters - once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again. - Peter A Graham

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it. - Brigham Young

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. - Joseph Addison

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

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

Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge, stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands. - Neil Gorsuch

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 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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Lawyers are doubters, skeptics; not in a bad sense. But they never know any thing absolutely and utterly without qualifications or modifications. - G N Tillman

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

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them. - Lyman Abbott

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers: you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda