Best 354 quotes in «lawyer quotes» category

Law, without force, is impotent.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

Laws are inoperative in war

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

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

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

Marijuana was a new phenomenon when we started. Now it's for everyone - doctors, lawyers, presidents.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

My father was a lawyer.

Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.

One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.