Quotes of Counsellor - somelinesforyou

“ Well, I want to say something. This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything. ”

- Connie Chung

“ Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ Lawyers in, as I understand it, at least 11 different states have looked at the actual bill not the talking points but the actual bill and they have said their laws are at risk. ”

- Benjamin Cohen

“ If it gets dragged on, it will be dragged on by the White House lawyers, because it can be handled in an expeditious way if they'll let us do it. ”

- Bob Bennett

“ Time is the wisest counselor. ”

- Pericles

“ Good lawyers know the law. Great lawyers know the judge. ”

- Unknown

“ Lawyers are like scissors; they never cut each other, but what is between them. ”

- Unknown

“ Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. ”

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“ The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ Lawyers are like beavers. They get in the mainstream and dam it up. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. ”

- Melvin Belli

“ We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Lawyers are natural politicians. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ”

- Charles W. Eliot

“ How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. ”

- Joyce Carol Oates

“ Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. ”

- Addison Mizner

“ Time is the wisest of all counselors. ”

- Plutarch

“ Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. ”

- Bible

“ The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. ”

- David Mellor

“ Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

“ Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. ”

- Martial

“ He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ”

- Charles Lamb
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