Lawyer Quotes

• You are remembered for the rules you break.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Bad Ass, Legacy

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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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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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• I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Winning, Soldier

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Persons, Documents

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Wheels

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

  Marvin Mitchelson

  Book, Divorce, Law

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• I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Death, Sarcastic

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Law, Protect

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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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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• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Attorney, Uncertainty

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected”, p.429

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• The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Law, Minutes

  "The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

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• Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Law, Duty

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• Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humor, Law, Clients

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.143, Wordsworth Editions

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• People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Letting Go, Humorous

  Will Rogers (1992). “Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies”, p.44, University of Oklahoma Press

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• It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

  Thomas Jefferson

  Funny, Yield, Law Students

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• To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

  Horse, Men, Succeed

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• A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

  Mark Twain

  Clever, Law, Lunch

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• Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013

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• Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  "'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled': climate-change talk from an unlikely source" by David Runnalls, www.theglobeandmail.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Compromise

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

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

  Henny Youngman

  Two, Asks

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• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ignorance, Feet, Law

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