A teacher, garbage collector, and a lawyer wound up together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter informed them that in order to get into Heaven, they would each have to answer one question. Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. - John Locke Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. - Elbert Hubbard All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot Don't judge your taco by its price. - Hunter S. Thompson Justice is incidental to law and order. - J Edgar Hoover The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero A lawyer and a cart wheel must be greased. - John R Beard To live outside the law, you must be honest. - Bob Dylan Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson Where there's a will there's a lawsuit. - Addison Mizner Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker The police are recruited from the criminal classes. - Gore Vidal A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. - Robert Frost The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. - Roscoe Pound Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice. - Richard L Abel The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare Stop soft soapin' and trying to deterge the judge! - Archie Bunker A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. - Thomas Fuller The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. - Oscar Wilde A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. - Gerald Jampolsky Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown Lawsuit: a machine you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. - Sally Field You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. - Joseph H Choate It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. - Alan Dershowitz It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. - Edgar Watson Howe The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying Law enforcement cannot succeed without the sustained, and informed, interest of all citizens. - Lyndon B Johnson Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. - Nelson Mandela If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. - George Savile Most of the dishonest lawyers are the product of dishonest clients - the demand creates the supply. - Morris Salem The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements form becoming big ones. - Harvey Mackay Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. - Henry James The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. - Henry G. Miller 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 Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damage awards. - Jodi Picoult 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 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 Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. - Solon When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. - Apothegm of Narda see also Heaven & Lawyer Sections Day of Light and Darkness TieTanic Titanic Size Titanic’s Non-Romantic Scene Titanic Trailer An Old Man’s Dying Request Ancient Greek Law Atheist Holiday Attending To Business Cataract Surgery Lawsuit Clever Lawyer Crazy Laws Cure for Child Abuse Difference Between a Convict and a Lawyer Distasteful Lawyer Do Not Read Law Generous Judge’s Divorce Settlement Generous Lawyer Good Lawyer Honest Lawyer Hot Coffee Is This Legal? 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