Good Lawyer

Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. - John Locke

Position is nine-tenths of the law. - Archie Bunker

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

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

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

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood

Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B McKay

Keep skunks, bankers and lawyers at a distance. - Unknown

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. - Roscoe Pound

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

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx

Somebody must get the incompetent lawyers and doctors. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law. - Moses Crowell

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

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

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

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer

Inside every hardened criminal beats the heart of a ten-year-old boy. - Homer Simpson

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. - Charles E Hughes

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

A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. - Patrick Murray

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

Your mother's down there throwing a monkey wrench into the halls of justice. - Archie Bunker

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

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. - George Washington

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. - Steven Wright

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain

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

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

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. - Goldie Hawn

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end. - John B O'Reilly

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

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers

Lawyers are like painters - once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again. - Peter A Graham

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. - Napoleon Bonaparte

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. - Sinclair Lewis

The question arises: whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. - Florynce R Kennedy

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

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

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. - Eugene V Debs

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