Lawyer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
-- Aaron Allston -
U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.
-- Abigail Washburn -
A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.
-- Adolf Hitler -
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
-- Akio Morita -
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
-- Alex James -
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
-- Alexander Pope -
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
-- Andrew Johnson -
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
-- Anita Hill -
The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
-- Antonin Scalia -
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
-- Arlen Specter -
When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients
-- Arn Tellem -
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
-- Barack Obama -
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
-- Barney Frank -
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
-- Bella Abzug -
Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
-- Bernhard Schlink -
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.
-- Big Bill Broonzy -
You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.
-- Billy Joe Shaver -
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
-- Billy Sunday -
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
-- Bob Woodward -
This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.
-- Buck McKeon -
Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.
-- C. J. Cherryh -
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
-- C.J. Sansom -
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin -
Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.
-- Carlo Gambino -
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.
-- Carolyn R. Dimmick -
I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
-- Channing Tatum -
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
-- Charles Dickens -
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ***** thick ***** they can.
-- Charles Macklin -
The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
-- Chauncey Depew -
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
-- Chief Joseph -
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
-- Chief Joseph -
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
-- Chris Gardner -
That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.
-- Christopher Darden -
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
-- Christopher Darden -
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
-- Chuck D -
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
-- Clarence Darrow -
The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
-- Clarence Darrow -
I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.
-- Clive Anderson -
This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.
-- Connie Chung -
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
-- Constance Baker Motley -
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
-- Cullen Hightower -
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
-- Cynthia Payne -
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
-- Dale Dauten -
I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.
-- Dan Quayle -
If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
-- Danny Huston -
Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.
-- David Baldacci -
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
-- David Crosby -
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.
-- David Graham Phillips -
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.
-- Dennis Hastert -
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.
-- Dick Cavett -
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
-- Dorothy Fields -
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
-- Edward Bennett Williams -
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
-- Eli Broad -
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
-- Emile Durkheim -
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
-- Erica Jong -
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
-- Florynce Kennedy -
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
-- Frances Osborne -
When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.
-- Frank Lampard -
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
-- Frank Shorter -
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
-- Franz Kafka -
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
-- Gail Anderson-Dargatz -
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
-- Gelett Burgess -
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
-- George Andrew Olah -
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.'
-- George Burns -
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
-- George Carlin -
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
-- George Crabbe -
We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.
-- Gerald Caiafa -
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
-- Gerry Spence -
I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.
-- Giovanna Cau -
Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .
-- Gordon Gould
