Joyous Lawyers

Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

The trouble with law is lawyers. - Clarence Darrow

Justice delayed is justice denied. - William Gladstone

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

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

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa

Where there's a will there's a lawsuit. - Addison Mizner

Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker

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

Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke. - Robin Hall

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. - Rene Descartes

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare

Stop soft soapin' and trying to deterge the judge! - Archie Bunker

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

Find a joy you like and you add five days to every week. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy. - Dan Gable

Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

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

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

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

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. - Jim Rohn

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

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. - Spider Robinson

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. - Sally Field

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. - Michael Ende

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

I know that this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law. - Bugs Bunny

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

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

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. - Garrison Keillor

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

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. - Thomas Aquinas

Law enforcement cannot succeed without the sustained, and informed, interest of all citizens. - Lyndon B Johnson

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

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

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. - W.A. Nance

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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

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

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