Best Lawyer Quotes

• 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

  Perseverance, Creativity, Character

  Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 1996.

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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 throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  Patrick Murray

  Funny, Winning, Lawyer

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• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Inspiration, Law

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

  Craig Reucassel

  Law, Lines, Anarchy

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• If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Law, People

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.255

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• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Two Sides, Feet

  Charles Lamb (1848). “Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd”, p.108

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• Whoever tells the best story wins.

  John Quincy Adams

  Funny, Winning, Stories

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• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

  John Keats

  Funny, Thinking, Class

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.263, Harvard University Press

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

  Mario Puzo

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969). This line does not appear in the movie version of The Godfather.

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• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble with law is lawyers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Feet, Trouble

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• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Change, Men, Law

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• A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Advice, Lawyer, Trade

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• The law is reason, free from passion.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Passion, Law

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,

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• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

  Woody Harrelson

  Play, Actors, Lines

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• You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

  Marco Rubio

  Hurt, Government, Guy

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