Quotes
Quotes about Lawyers
Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,--some of them in hell.
The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
The judges all ranged,--a terrible show!
The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.
If laws were outlawed, only outlaws would be lawyers.
If laws were outlawed, only outlaws would be lawyers.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time; Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best, And turn'd some very serious things to jest. Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers, Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers; "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute! Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote. We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens, When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die," And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.
You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]
