Legal Disclosure

Divorce: fission after fusion. - Rita Mae Brown

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno

A bad compromise beats a good lawsuit. - Saying

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

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

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

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

Alimony is always having to say you're sorry. - Philip Simborg

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

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. - Kim Campbell

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. - Oscar Wilde

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. - Herbert Spencer

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. - African Proverb

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

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

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. - Oscar Wilde

Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. - Native American Proverb

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. - Confucius

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain

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

The laws of probability - so true in general, so fallacious in particular. - Edward Gibbon

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. - Wendell Phillips

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. - Bertrand Russell

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Tennis is like a lawsuit: activity from across the court is often surprising. - Unknown

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

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

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D.H. Lawrence

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

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

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. - Victor Hugo

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. - George Savile

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

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire one to tell me how to do what I want to do. - J P Morgan

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

There's a lot of fake people in the world, but before you judge them, make sure you're not one of them. - Unknown

The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation. - Warren E. Burger

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 is stupid. - Albert Einstein

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

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 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