Best Lawyer Sayings
1050 Lawyer quotes by 778 unique authors
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
— Solon
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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.
— Julian Assange
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
— C.S. Lewis
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What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start..
— Danny DeVito
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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
— Victor Borge
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
— John Keats
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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might…
— George Eliot
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From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
— John Harington
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get…
— Erica Jong
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If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,…
— Steven Chu
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Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our…
— Dan Quayle
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the…
— James A. Baldwin
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,…
— Alfred Adler
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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