Lawyer Quotes · Page 24

“Go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to party, go get an MBA. The Rat”

— Charles Cooper

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

— Henry David Thoreau

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge

— Margaret Deland

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

— William Cowper

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

— Victor Borge

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Gabriel Macht

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start…

— Hillary Clinton

Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international…

— Claudia Kim

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one,…

— John Gierach

“When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers…

— Steven Brill

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer…

— Benjamin Cardozo

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a…

— Alan Page

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

— Bob Woodward

I think you don't know if a lawyer's a lawyer until there's something to overcome in the courtroom. Something goes wrong.

— Teddy Atlas

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There…

— David Chase

Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid…

— Marcus Luttrell

It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we…

— Terrence J

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best…

— Michael Kosser

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed - but is there not perhaps a cheaper…

— Jerry Pournelle

I've never wanted to be anything other than an actor. I started performing on Broadway when I was 8 years old. My…

— Lea Michele

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

— Stone Gossard

I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.

— Johnny Carson

I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

— Keith Rothfus

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country...

— Susan Cain

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

— Clarence Darrow

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

— Mason Cooley

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

— Richard Barnet

“Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.”

— John Grisham

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

— Joyce Carol Oates

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

— Julian Assange

If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.

— Alex Stamos

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

— F. Lee Bailey

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

— Katie Piper

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

— Abraham Lincoln