Quotes About Lawyers

 

Lawyer Quotes

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. Franklin P. Jones
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. Jean De La Bruyere
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr
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The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. W.C. Fields
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A man without money needs no more fear a crowd of lawyers than a crowd of pickpockets. R. Rinkle
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By all reasonable measures, the American tort system is a disaster. It resembles a wealth-redistribution lottery more than an efficient system designed to compensate those injured by the wrongful actions of others. David E. Bernstein
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He must wait next day for the visits of the ‘shyster’ lawyers, a set of turkey-buzzards whose touch is pollution and whose breath is pestilence. G.G. Foster
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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
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Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them. William Goldsmith
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. Elbert Hubbard
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Lawyer: 1. A person who takes this from that, with the result that That hath not where to lay his head. 2. An unnecessary evil. 3. The only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
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There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honourable then politicians but less honourable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration. Alexander King
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Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case. Edward Packard, Jr.
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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it’s in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer. Will Rogers
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Whoever tells the best story wins. John Quincy Adams

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