Lawyer Quotes · Page 28

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

— Dale Dauten

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

— Janet Reno

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

— Steve Case

I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.

— Cris Collinsworth

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

— Lawrence Lessig

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

— H. L. Mencken

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

— Abraham Lincoln

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate…

— Hillary Clinton

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that…

— Robin S. Sharma

One of you guys is going to have to feed the vampiric lawyer some blood and it can’t be me. (Caleb) Why?…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I'm very lazy. I'm intelligent, but…

— AJ Tracey

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was…

— Bella Abzug

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well…

— Terry Eagleton

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't…

— Gore Vidal

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

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

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law…

— Anonymous

Michael Sorrell had no experience running a college. He had been a lawyer and White House special assistant, but he knew Paul…

— Hari Sreenivasan

“He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked…

— Dave Zeltserman

There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your…

— Robert Greene

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are…

— Anonymous

“But I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a…

— Robert Penn Warren

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

— Sonita Alizadeh

I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.

— Dash Mihok

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

— Anonymous

“I’m a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

— Robert J. White

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

— Richard Ingrams

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

— David Stern

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in…

— Chris Rock

My first movie was 'Sudden Fear' with Joan Crawford, and I remember I played a lawyer.

— Mike Connors

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

— Dick Cavett

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was…

— Elijah Cummings

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

— Charles Bukowski

I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.

— Sadiq Khan

The way to find the real boss is to find out who hires the lawyers

— Anonymous

Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

— Bill Vaughan