Every Man Should Get One

The law is silent during war. - Cicero

Position is nine-tenths of the law. - Archie Bunker

Lawsuits: Clothes worn by an attorney - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Don't judge your taco by its price. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest. - Bob Dylan

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

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare

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

Somebody must get the incompetent lawyers and doctors. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. - Addison Mizner

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus

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

Lawyers are like beavers. They get in the mainstream and dam it up. - John Naisbitt

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

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

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

The laws of probability - so true in general, so fallacious in particular. - Edward Gibbon

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

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset I'm not a widow. - Roseanne Barr

The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes

Washington, D.C.: Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. - Frank Dane

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? - Douglas Adams

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

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

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

Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend. - St. Augustine

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

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown

Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot. - Adolphus W Ward

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.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? - George Carlin

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

The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict. - G Christopher Ritter

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy

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 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

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

The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honour, who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?" - Steven Wright

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

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them. - Lyman Abbott