Joyous Lawyers

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers

Joy is not in things, it is in us. - Benjamin Franklin

Useless laws weaken necessary laws. - Charles de Secondat

The good lawyer is the great salesman. - Janet Reno

Don't judge your taco by its price. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law. - Unknown

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. - Robert Frost

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. - Earl Warren

Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive. - Bono

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

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

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

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. - Jeremy Bentham

You're breakin' about 18 laws, maybe even a dozen. - Archie Bunker

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

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius

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

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

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. - S.I. Hayakawa

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

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

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

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. - Donald Rumsfeld

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

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

Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools. - Unknown

You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground. - Unknown

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

In today's rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just being. - Eckhart Tolle

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

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes. - Billy Connolly

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran

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

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. - William Blake

Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. - Denis Diderot

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - Solon

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

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle. - Neil Armstrong

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