64 Great Lawyer Quotes And Sayings
Lawyer is a person who practises or studies law, especially (in the UK) a solicitor or a barrister or (in the US) an attorney.
1. Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Cary Grant
2. I didn’t want to play a lawyer. I didn’t want to play a doctor. I didn’t want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. William Petersen
3. I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity – these values mean a lot to me.
Mohamed ElBaradei
4. I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.
Michele Bachmann
5. Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
6. Rich practice does not always make the lawyer better, but always makes him richer
Anonymous
7. We are very good lawyers for our own mistakes, but very good judges for the mistakes of others
Anonymous
8. Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert
9. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
10. Lawyers are like beavers,They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
John Naisbitt
11. Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
Barney Frank
12. A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
Augustus William
13. Lawyer's Wit and Wisdom In Brief
Anonymous
14. How I Love Lucy was born1We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball
15. There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys — prosecution and defense — dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at
Michael Connelly
16. The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Anonymous
17. Lawyers are the only profession where the more there are, the more are needed!
Robert Lucky
18. We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
Thomas Friedman
19. Lawyers only lie when their lips move
Anonymous
20. Lawyers are the only category of people not threatened by the ignorance of laws.
Jeremy Bentham
21. Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb
22. Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
Thomas More
23. I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
Christopher Darden
24. Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers – the guys who steal all the money and take off. That’s the fun stuff.
John Grisham
25. If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile
26. Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our constitution. Rennard Strickland &
Frank T. Read
27. Our ancestors… were laborers, not lawyers.
Thomas Jefferson
28. Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
ELBERT HUBBARD
29. Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
Megyn Kelly
30. A lawyer has a duty to give his client the best possible advice without regard for his own financial circumstances.
John Grisham
31. A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
Anonymous
32. True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men’s burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.
John W. Davis
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33. I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
Catherine Zeta-Jones
34. Behind every man is a good woman behind every good woman is a good lawyer
Anonymous
35. The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow
36. Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. Napoleon Hill
37. The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
39. A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley
40. I had warned her that lawyers shouldn't marry other lawyers, that it only led to imbecile paralegals.
Craig Johnson
41. Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
42. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.
Virginia Ostman
43. Th' lawyers make th' law; th' judges make th' errors, but th' iditors make th' juries.
Finley Peter Dunne
44. Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Tammy Bruce
45. The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
Abraham Lincoln
46. Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. Hunter S. Thompson
47. Science and math are scary to a lot of lawyers.
Gary Clements
48. Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
49. Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black
Anonymous
50. Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston
51. He who has said that 'talk is cheap', has never hired a lawyer
Anonymous
52. The Lawyers Creed Mind Your Manners, Tell The Truth, Know The Law
Anonymous
53. Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge
Anonymous
54. A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
55. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Horace
56. Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Addison Mizner
57. If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
58. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb
59. The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Will Roger
60. When an attorney gets married, they don't say I do – They say, I accept the terms & conditions
Anonymous
61. A good lawyer makes you believe the truth but a great lawyer makes you believe in the lie
Anonymous
62. If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
Thomas Jefferson
63. Most of the dishonest lawyers are the product of dishonest clients the demand creates the supply.
Morris Salem