Lawyer Quotes
Most popular lawyers quotes
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients that "we have won" and, when justice has frowned upon their cause, that "you have lost."
A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for.
I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology. What the second? Tautology. What the third? Tautology.
What we lawyers want to do is to substitute courts for carnage, dockets for rockets, briefs for bombs, warrants for warheads, mandates for missiles.
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasp of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddenly aware of the sweep and direction of the law and its place in the lives of men.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
I know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favor ev'ry client.
There's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
