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Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

Judge me when you are perfect. - Unknown

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. - French Proverb

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. - Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies. - Arabian Proverb

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

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx

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

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. - Yiddish Proverb

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. - Herbert Spencer

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it. - Harry S Truman

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

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

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. - Karen M Moning

True friends don't judge each other, they judge other people together. - Unknown

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle

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

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it. - Jean de la Bruyere

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

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Sophocles

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. - Immanuel Kant

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

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

My husband and I had our best sex during our divorce. It was like cheating on our lawyers. - Priscilla Lopez

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

As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. - Junius

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves. - Charles C Colton

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

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

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

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

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

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 main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it. - Scott Adams

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

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

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. - Calvin Coolidge

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

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

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 doubters, skeptics; not in a bad sense. But they never know any thing absolutely and utterly without qualifications or modifications. - G N Tillman

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson