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The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope

Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. - John Locke

A lawsuit helps keep lawyers clothed. - Unknown

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. - Charles Lamb

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams

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

Law of the Supermarket: The other line moves faster. - Unknown

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

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

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

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer

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

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

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. - H.W. Shaw

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

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey

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

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. - Oscar Wilde

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. - WC Fields

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm

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

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

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

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

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

A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost

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

Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it. - William Penn

If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. - Edgar Watson Howe

The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying

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

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

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsgar Dijkstra

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements form becoming big ones. - Harvey Mackay

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

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

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Too many young folk have an addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. - Cornel West

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

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