Jake Warner: There are hundreds of legal proverbs -- many acerbic, barbed, and hilarious.
Auntie Nolo: You forgot "true". When the common folk of this world repeat a comment about law and lawyers so often that it achieves the status of folk wisdom, you can be sure it will be as true as it is funny.
Jake Warner: Prove it.
Auntie Nolo: Okay, but we'll need to call this blog, "Oh So True, Part 1", because I've got scads, and sooner or later I'll want to get them all out.
May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are right.
Mexican Curse
The Devil makes his Christmas Pie of lawyers' tongues.
English Proverb
A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Spanish Proverb
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth
Fond of physicians, little health
Hebrew Proverb
Doctors purge the body,
Ministers the conscience,
Lawyers the purse.
German Proverb
