Lawyers Quotes · Page 6

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

— Charles Soule

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

— Horace Walpole

What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start..

— Danny DeVito

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

— Calvin Trillin

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

— Jonathan Swift

“Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.”

— Jackson Burnett

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

— Scott Bakula

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

— Alex James

Detention cells in Hong Kong are not pleasant. In Thailand they are even worse. In Hong Kong you are at least allowed…

— Joshua Wong

“What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.”

— Coreen T. Sol

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the…

— Steven Rattner

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

— Archibald Cox

It's hard to get a job. There are more lawyers within a five-mile radius of wherever you're sitting than there are Division…

— Ben Howland

There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers.…

— Edward Burns

I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to…

— Randy Quaid

Lawyers have rendered immense sacrifices for the restoration of democracy and free judiciary, and their role in this regard cannot be ignored.

— Shehbaz Sharif

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run…

— David Crosby

“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble…

— John Grisham

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On…

— Mike Leach

When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

“You can't figure out why I'm mad? How about because I had my tongue between your legs two days ago, or the…

— Sawyer Bennett

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system,…

— Noah Feldman

“There was dust everywhere: dust on the cracked and rheumy window; dust over the drugget that made shift as Mr. Guyle's carpet;…

— D. J. Taylor

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black…

— Trevor Rabin

“Q: Why won't sharks attack lawyers? A: Professional courtesy.”

— Various

“Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.”

— Kenneth Eade

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

— Jane McGonigal

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

— Mario Puzo

Lawyers would have a hard time making a living if people behaved themselves and kept their promises

— Thomas Fuller

Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.

— Dan Pena

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

— Zephyr Teachout

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

— Antonin Scalia

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.”

— Pete Morin

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

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

— Will Rogers

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

— George P. Bush