Joyous Lawyers

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Don't judge a cat by its coat. - Magdalena VandenBerg

Useless laws weaken necessary laws. - Charles de Secondat

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

OK, if you can get an indepartial judge. - Archie Bunker

Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood

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

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

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

The police are recruited from the criminal classes. - Gore Vidal

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. - Wendell Berry

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

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus

You have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy. - Doug Collins

Adam was the luckiest man in the world - he had no mother-in-law. - Sholom Aleichem

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport. - Henny Youngman

Guarantee: A legal vehicle which expires on the same day as your mechanical one - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Sophocles

Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. - William Shakespeare

Stock Split: When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend. - St. Augustine

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

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

The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. - Elbert Hubbard

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

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

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

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice. - Marcus Garvey

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - C S Lewis

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

Strapless Gown: 1. When a woman won't shoulder the responsibility; 2. A compromise between the law of decency and the law of gravity. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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