Joyous Lawyers

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

Justice is incidental to law and order. - J Edgar Hoover

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

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. - Gregory Nunn

Joy Ride: Going somewhere without the kids - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. - Melba Colgrove

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. - Ed Asner

Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson

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

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. - Lenny Bruce

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. - Yiddish Proverb

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls. - Lottie Moon

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

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck

Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. - Ralph Nader

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

Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel. - Josh Billings

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

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can. - Paul J Meyer

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

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of any itch is inversely proportional to the reach - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

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

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. - Guindon

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them. - Lyman Abbott

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin

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

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan

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

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

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. - Ayn Rand

Honest and peace-loving people shun the Courts and are prepared to suffer loss rather than fall into a Lawyer's clutches. - Peter De Noronha

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

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

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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