Lawyer Quotes

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Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.