Lawyer Quotes · Page 16

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

— John Grisham

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

— Joe Scarborough

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

— Mario Puzo

I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.

— Haim Saban

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

— Hunter S. Thompson

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

— C. S. Lewis

Nowadays some girls seem more particular about choosing their lawyers than choosing their husbands.

— Vikrant Parsai

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,…

— Howard Gordon

Being a lawyer, it's like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it's lovely…

— Lisa Joy

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need…

— Dan Savage

Bob asked his lawyer what would happen if he didn't make a will and she said: 'Your wife and children will be…

— Rita Marley

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins…

— Clarence Darrow

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will…

— Craig Ferguson

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are…

— Linus Torvalds

I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college.…

— Dania Ramirez

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for…

— Khaled Hosseini

I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it…

— Shirley Chisholm

I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or…

— Terry Gross

The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then…

— John Silber

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute…

— Daniel H. Pink

“It is true that too much legal writing is obfuscatory, wordy, dense and stilted. Many lawyers seem to believe that sounding like…

— Charles M. Fox

This is true in other fields, too, that a legal aid lawyer gets a whole lot less money than a Hollywood lawyer…

— Alice Mattison

I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could…

— Craig Seymour

“Hey you scummers, we got a cheap lawyer and we're no' afraid tae use him!" Rob Anybody.”

— Terry Pratchett

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

— Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

— Ruben Blades

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

— Alexander Pope

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

— Christine Lagarde

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

— Connie Chung

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer.

— Conchata Ferrell

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

— Jill Lepore

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a…

— Alexander Whyte

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

— John Frusciante

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

— Frank Dane

“LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just!— — —Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER”

— August Strindberg

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

— Danny Strong

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

— Voltaire