A young clerk’s responsibilities included bringing the judge a hot cup of coffee at the start of every day. Each morning the judge was enraged that the coffee cup arrived two-thirds full. The clerk explained that he had to rush to get the coffee delivered while it was still hot, which caused him to spill much of it along the way.
None of the judge’s yelling and insults produced a full cup of coffee, until he finally threatened to cut the clerk’s pay by one-third if he continued to produce one-third less than the judge wanted.
The next morning he was greeted with a cup of coffee that was full to the brim, and the next morning and the morning after that.
The judge couldn’t resist gloating over his success and smugly complimented the clerk on his new technique.
“Oh, there’s not much to it,” admitted the clerk happily, “I take some coffee in my mouth right outside the coffee room, and spit it back in when I get outside your office.”
The law is silent during war. - Cicero
Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers
Don't judge a cat by its coat. - Magdalena VandenBerg
Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood
Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B McKay
Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying
Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes
Mother-In-Law Sandwich: Cold shoulder and tongue - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. - Henry G Bohn
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx
Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson
It is an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o'. - John Ray
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests. - Rob Dyrdek
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Don't judge me. I was born to be awesome, not perfect. - Unknown
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo
All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for a loaf of bread. - Josh Billings
He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J Hunter
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn
The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes
You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. - Joseph H Choate
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce
A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men. - Gregory E Lang
A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
It's amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee. - Donna A Favors
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. - Reinhard Bonnke
The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. - George Savile
Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves. - Charles C Colton
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. - Goldie Hawn
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's a lot of fake people in the world, but before you judge them, make sure you're not one of them. - Unknown
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli
People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. - Joseph Addison
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. - Joyce Carol Oates
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. - Calvin Coolidge
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
Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp
Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga
There is only one categorical imperative: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law. - Immanuel Kant
Order is Heaven's first law. - Alexander Pope
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers
Don't judge a cat by its coat. - Magdalena VandenBerg
Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood
Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B McKay
Law and order are not necessarily partners. - Saying
Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes
Mother-In-Law Sandwich: Cold shoulder and tongue - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. - Henry G Bohn
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx
Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson
It is an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o'. - John Ray
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests. - Rob Dyrdek
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Don't judge me. I was born to be awesome, not perfect. - Unknown
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. - Jamie Lee Curtis
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo
All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for a loaf of bread. - Josh Billings
He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J Hunter
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn
The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes
You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. - Joseph H Choate
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce
A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men. - Gregory E Lang
A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
It's amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee. - Donna A Favors
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. - Reinhard Bonnke
The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. - George Savile
Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves. - Charles C Colton
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. - Goldie Hawn
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's a lot of fake people in the world, but before you judge them, make sure you're not one of them. - Unknown
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli
People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. - Joseph Addison
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. - Joyce Carol Oates
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. - Calvin Coolidge
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
Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp
Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga
There is only one categorical imperative: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law. - Immanuel Kant
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