Every Man Should Get One

The law itself follows gold. - Propertius

Agree, for the law is costly. - William Camden

Divorce: fission after fusion. - Rita Mae Brown

Don't judge a cat by its coat. - Magdalena VandenBerg

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. - Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

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

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

Lawyers are guardians of the legal order. - Philip Wood

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

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. - Samuel Butler

We are never to judge a philosophy by its abuse. - Augustine

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

Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. - Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying. - Leo Reilly

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

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Lawyers are men who will swear black is white, if they are paid for it. - Edward Counsel

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

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

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. - Voltaire

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

Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. - Jane Bryant Quinn

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

Lawyers are like foxes, small and innocuous, but all the time stealthily sniffing the air. - Michael O'Sullivan

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

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges. - Anatole France

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them. - Lyman Abbott

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

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

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan

There's a lot of fake people in the world, but before you judge them, make sure you're not one of them. - Unknown

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way; and if there is no hole, to make one. - W Ouseley

Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - Solon

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 lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. - Melvin Belli

The Post Office just recalled their newest stamps. They had a picture of lawyers on them, and people couldn't figure out which side to spit on. - Marvin Lebman