Lawyer Quotes

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. View quote
Robert Frost
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. View quote
Norman Mailer
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. View quote
Edmund Burke
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. View quote
George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. View quote
George Herbert
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. View quote
Charles Lamb
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. View quote
Oliver North
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. (Mario Cuomo)
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. View quote
Walter Scott
The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun. View quote
Mario Puzo
Every peasant has a lawyer inside him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. View quote
Bella Abzug
A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. View quote
Patrick Murray
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. View quote
Patrick Murray
I am a trial lawyer.... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. View quote
Mario Cuomo
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. View quote
Jacques Pepin
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. View quote
George Weinberg
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer. (Anita Hill)
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music. View quote
Billy Eckstine
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer. View quote
Christopher Darden
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer. View quote
Frank Shorter