Quotes of Lawyer - somelinesforyou

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

- William Shakespeare

“ A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ I have only one counsel for you — be master. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. ”

- Washington Irving

“ 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. ”

- Bella Abzug

“ If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. ”

- Joe Martin

“ Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. ”

- George Herbert

“ If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ”

- Edward F. Halifax

“ It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. ”

- Gerald F. Lieberman

“ I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution. ”

- Ulysses S. Grant

“ Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white. ”

- Unknown

“ The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. ”

- Raymond Chandler

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ 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! ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ”

- Dick Houser

“ Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. ”

- Henry M. Robert

“ Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. ”

- Hart Pomerantz

“ I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. ”

- Pierre Auguste Renoir

“ Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ 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

“ In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ”

- Louis Nizer

“ A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ”

- Alexander Pope
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