Able Quote by Robert Smith

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

— Robert Smith Surtees

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

— Robert J. White

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Whoever tells the best story wins.

— John Quincy Adams

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack…

— Will Rogers

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

— John Selden

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

— Kate Chopin

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of…

— Robert Peel

“how lamentable is the present Corruption of the World! how impure are the Channels through which Trade hath a Conveyance!”

— John Woolman

“There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.”

— Seneca

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

— Voltaire

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

— Harold Pinter