Lawyer Quotes

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Business, Enough

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin

God, Honest, Works

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Character

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Decide, Chosen, Jury

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

Bad, Luck, Mirror

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

Decide, Chosen, Jury

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Consistent, Expediency

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson

Happy, Whole, Progress

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Become, Pay, Crime

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Best, Compromise, Cheapest

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

Justice, Humanity, May

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Stupidity, Doctor, Weakness

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
Jerry Lewis

Life, Friendship, Loyalty

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo

Men, Guns, Steal

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Woman, Become, Another

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler

Dream, Heaven, Tried

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo

Smart, Judge, Law

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

Good, Job, Friendly

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
Chief Joseph

Great, Country, Took

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.
Rick Perry

Home, Call, Criminal

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
Chief Joseph

Country, Band, Authority

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott

History, Knowledge, May

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb

Two, Cannot, Sides

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

War, Game, Trade

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Jon Stewart

Death, Done, Him

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Paul Ryan

Life, Dad, Lost

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
Demetri Martin

Work, Good, School

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert

Nor, Deceive, Thy

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North

Good, Lord, Trusting

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