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Lawyer Jokes Etcetera:Proverbs |
Home is home, as the devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.
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English
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A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.
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English
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A client twixt his attorney and counsellor is like a goose twixt two foxes.
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English
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A good lawyer, an evil neighbor.
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English, French, Spanish
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Preachers purge the conscience, doctors the body, lawyers the purse.
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German
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Lawyers and soldiers are the devil's playmates.
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German
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Go to law for a sheep and lose your cow.
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German
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A lawyer and a wagon-wheel must be well greased.
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German
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New laws are followed by new tricks.
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German
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The better lawyer, the worse Christian.
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Dutch
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"Virtue is in the middle," said the devil, as he sat down between two lawyers.
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Danish
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Lawyers and painters can soon change black to white.
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Danish
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One goes to court with one lawsuit and comes home with two.
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Danish
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Love all men—but not lawyers.
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Italian
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A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden.
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Italian
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A bad agreement is better than a good lawyer.
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Italian
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The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, the lawyer's his fortune.
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Venetian
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A happy death is better than a lawsuit.
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Spanish
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It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.
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Spanish
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A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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Catalan
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Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave.
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Russian
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When God wanted to chastise man He invented lawyers.
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Russian
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It's better to enter the mouth of a tiger than a court of law.
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Chinese
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L a w y e r J o k e s E t c e t e r a Riddles | Proverbs | The Legal Mind | Neither Fish Nor Fowl A Loathsome Miscellany | What Oft Was Thought | A Fitting End |