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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Lawyers |
| A captain and a lawyer are rare guests in heaven. German. | 1 |
| A good lawyer is an evil neighbor. | 2 |
| A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers. Spanish. | 3 |
| A lawyer and a cart-wheel must be greased. German. | 4 |
| A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it to himself. Brougham. | 5 |
| A lawyer is an odd sort of a fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe. | 6 |
| A lawyer, that entangles all men’s honesties And lives like a spider in a cobweb lurking, And catching at all flies that pass his pitfalls. Fletcher. | 7 |
| A lawyer without cunning, a peasant without manure, a merchant without gold, remain poor. German. | 8 |
| A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Catalan. | 9 |
| A wise lawyer never goes to law himself. | 10 |
| An old physician and a young lawyer. | 11 |
| Fair and softly as lawyers go to heaven. | 12 |
| Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. | 13 |
| Fools and the perverse, fill the lawyer’s purse. Spanish, German. | 14 |
| From confessors, doctors and lawyers, do not conceal the truth of your cause. French. | 15 |
| Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. | 16 |
| God grant that disputes may arise that I may live. (Lawyer’s prayer.) Spanish. | 17 |
| Good counsellors lack no clients. Shakespeare. | 18 |
| Good lawyers, bad neighbors. | 19 |
| Go not to your doctor for every ail, Nor to your lawyer for every quarrel, Nor to your pitcher for every thirst. | 20 |
| He is a bad lawyer that drinks only water. German. | 21 |
| Hide not the truth from your confessor, your doctor or your lawyer. Italian. | 22 |
| I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please. | 23 |
| It is an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o’. | 24 |
| It’s aye the cheapest lawyer’s fee to taste the barrel. Burns. | 25 |
| Lawsuits make the parties lean, the lawyers fat. German. | 26 |
| Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. Danish. | 27 |
| Lawyers and soldiers are the devil’s playfellows. | 28 |
| Lawyers are bad Christians. German. | 29 |
| Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. Martial. | 30 |
| Lawyers don’t stick at trifles. Kelley. | 31 |
| Lawyers’ houses are built of fools’ heads. French. | 32 |
| Lawyers’ robes are lined with the obstinacy of suitors. Italian. | 33 |
| Lawyers strive mightily in court, then eat and drink as friends. | 34 |
| Lawyers will live so long as mine and thine exist. German. | 35 |
| No good lawyer ever goes to law himself. Italian. | 36 |
| Nothing is the breath of an unfeed lawyer. | 37 |
| Of three things the devil makes a salad; lawyers’ tongues, notaries’ fingers, and the third shall be nameless. Italian. | 38 |
| One may steal nothing but a lawyer’s purse. French. | 39 |
| One must knock at a lawyer’s door with an iron hammer. German. | 40 |
| Plenty of words when the cause is lost. French. | 41 |
| Put a lawyer on your horse and he’ll soon drive you to the devil. Punch. | 42 |
| The better lawyer, the worse Christian. Dutch. | 43 |
| “The case is altered,” quoth Plowden. (Plowden was a lawyer who gave an opinion to a client, and when he found that he himself was the wrong-doer, used this expression.) | 44 |
| The Isle of Wight hath no monks, lawyers or foxes. | 45 |
| The king can make a sergeant, but not a lawyer. | 46 |
| The lawyer can direct the matter as he will when it does not lie before his own door. German. | 47 |
| The lawyer dreams his life long of quarrels and contentions. German. | 48 |
| The lawyer has long day’s work. | 49 |
| The lawyer with a face demure, hangs him who steals your pelf, Because the good man endures no robber but himself. Fielding. | 50 |
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| The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of hell. French. | 51 |
| The lawyer’s vocation is to make the worse appear the better reason. | 52 |
| The lives of doctors, the souls of priests and the property of lawyers are in great danger. Italian. | 53 |
| The more lawyers the more processes (suits). German. | 54 |
| The nobleman fleeces the peasant, and the lawyer the nobleman. German. | 55 |
| “The suit is ended,” said the lawyer; “neither party has anything left.” German. | 56 |
| The wise man seeketh the lawyer early; i.e., before his rights are lost. A. Lipscomb. | 57 |
| Until hell is full no lawyer will be saved. French. | 58 |
| “Virtue in the middle,” said the devil when seated between two lawyers. Danish. | 59 |
| War, hunting and law are as full of trouble as pleasure. | 60 |
| We think lawyers to be wise men and they us to be fools. | 61 |
| When the lawyer acts according to his conscience the blind man will believe what his eyes see. German. | 62 |
| Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have stolen away the key of knowledge. New Testament. | 63 |
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