Best 354 quotes in «lawyer quotes» category

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

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.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Deal with just the basic fact: we will never have enough money for lawyers for poor people. So one of our major initiatives has been to develop new technologies that can help people without a lawyer navigate the legal system, and help sort the cases that really need to have a lawyer from those where an individual with some help online, may be able to manage by him or herself.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Donald Trump always used to say, "Oh, what have you been doing for 30 years?" And I always found that kind of odd because you could Google it and find out. And, you know, I've been a lawyer and I've been a First Lady and I've been a senator and I've been secretary of state.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on.

Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

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

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.

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

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.