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The law itself follows gold. - Propertius

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

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

The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero

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

What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator. - Marvin Lebman

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. - Stephen King

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

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

Good lawyers know the law. Great lawyers know the judge. - Unknown

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

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for. - Unknown

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. - Clarence Darrow

Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. - Native American Proverb

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

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'? - Jay Leno

Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel. - Josh Billings

All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for a loaf of bread. - Josh Billings

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn

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

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

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

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

The law was made for one thing alone - for the exploitation of those who don't understand it. - Bertoit Brecht

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. - Charles Kuralt

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

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

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. - Felix G Rohatyn

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

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. - Melvin Belli

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.

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

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow

Honest and peace-loving people shun the Courts and are prepared to suffer loss rather than fall into a Lawyer's clutches. - Peter De Noronha

Bakinmyday: A law passed in the early 1900s that made it mandatory to build all schools at least 15 miles from all future grandfathers - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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 was stupid. - Albert Einstein

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. - Tim Allen

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

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers: you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda