Lawyer Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
Mario Puzo
It is better to be a mouse in a cat’s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands.
Spanish Proverb
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lawyer: One who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation.
Henry Lewis Mencken
A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.
Henry Peter Brougham
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham
Lawyer, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Will Rogers
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
John Keats
Only painters and lawyers can turn white to black.
Japanese Proverb
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them.
William Goldsmith
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Thomas Jefferson
He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
Proverb
A lawyer’s relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner’s relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.
Lucille Kellen
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
French Proverb
A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.
Anonymous
Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.
Daniel Webster
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
Lord Halifax
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.
Joseph H. Choate
And God said: ‘Let there be Satan, so people don’t blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don’t blame everything on Satan’.
George Burns
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Janet Reno
God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers.
Russian Proverb
A lawyer’s opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.
English proverb
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
A good lawyer is a great liar.
Edward Ward
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