Lawyer Quotes · Page 13

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

— Chief Joseph

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

— Benjamin Franklin

I went with Atlantic because I got a lawyer to look at my contract and my contract was fire.

— Rico Nasty

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

— Megyn Kelly

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.

— William H. Pryor

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

— Nancy Grace

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

— Alfred Nobel

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is…

— John Harington

Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel…

— Milton Berle

I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the…

— Albert S. Ruddy

The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty.…

— Portia de Rossi

Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a…

— Sean Patrick Maloney

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption…

— Abraham Lincoln

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

— Melvin Belli

Frankly, I am shocked at the complete level of incompetence exhibited by lawyer after lawyer for Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump.

— Michael Avenatti

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from…

— Jerry Lewis

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what…

— Anna Quindlen

When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as…

— Michaela Watkins

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive…

— Charles Hamilton Houston

I published a thesis about animal rights when I was studying in England in 1991. Back then, I was a human rights…

— Park Won-soon

It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,'…

— Benjamin Wittes

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention;…

— James Lipton

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is…

— Woodrow Wilson

I don't pretend to be the greatest lawyer who ever lived or even the greatest lawyer today...

— Percy Foreman

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

— Robin Williams

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer…

— Yvonne Orji

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

— John Mortimer

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

— Jeremy Sumpter

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

— Richard M Nixon

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

— Gemma Chan

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

— Neil Cavuto

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

— Clarence Darrow

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

— Calvin Coolidge

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

— Tullian Tchividjian

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

— Ruben Blades

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

— John Currin

From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

— Gary Bettman

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon…

— Brigham Young