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Quotes About Lawyers
(Part 1)
Imagine the appeals, dissents and remandments, if lawyers
had written 'The Ten Commandments'.
- Harry Bender
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word
document and calls it a "brief." - Franz Kafka
"My daddy is a movie actor, and sometimes he plays the good guy,
and sometimes he plays the lawyer."
- Malcolm Ford, to his preschool classmates on what his father,
actor Harrison Ford, does for a living.
Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and
some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become
lawyers. - Woody Allen
America is the paradise of lawyers. - David Brewer
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two men are called a
law firm, and three or more become a Congress. — John
Adams, in the play ―1776″
Lawyers are just like physicians: what one says, the
other contradicts. – SholomAleichem
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn‘t be said for the guy; that‘s why there are lawyers. – Melvin
Belli
Imagine the appeals, dissents and remandments, if lawyers
had written ‗The Ten Commandments‘. – Harry
Bender
There‘s no better way of exercising the imagination
than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as
freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ―Lawyers Are‖:
Those who lie, conceal and distort everything and slander everybody. – Jean Giraudoux
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. – Thomas Jefferson
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for:
making the worse argument appear the stronger. – Judge
Irving Kaufman
Lawyers are the only profession where the more
there are, the more are needed! – Robert Lucky, IEEE
Spectrum
Lawyers are one who protects us against robbery by taking
away the temptation. – Henry Louis Mencken
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your
pocket. – H.L. Mencken
I don‘t want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want
to do. – J.P. Morgan
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and
damn it up. – John Naisbitt, in Megatrends
A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
– Laurence J. Peter
Litigation is the basic legal right which guarantees every
corporation its decade in court. – David Porter
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 our pieces around the
board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person
who has read the inside of the top of the box. – Jerry Seinfeld
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not
important that you understand what I‘m doing or why you‘re
paying me so much money. What‘s important is that you
continue to do so. – Hunter S. Thompson‘s Samoan Attorney
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin‘ ready to prove that a man‘s heirs ain‘t
got any right to his property. –Mark Twain
Of course I‘ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons:
I‘ve got em coz everyone else has. But as soon as you use
them they f**k everything up. –Danny de Vito in ―Other
People‘s Money‖
People who can write a 10,000-word document and
call it a brief.
Check out for more in Part 2.
Meanwhile, here‘ the full post.