Practicing Law Quotes

• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  Addison Mizner

  Funny, Ignorance, Men

  Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

  John Selden

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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• In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

  Christopher Darden

  Taken, Law, Gone

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• I like practicing law.

  Bill Janklow

  Law

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• What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

  Edward Bennett Williams

  Friends, Law, President

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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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• The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, People, Safety

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Niall Rudd (2008). “The Republic and The Laws”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Justice, Authority

  Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

  David Guterson

  Father, Law, Criminals

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

  Steve Berry

  Morning, Writing, Law

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• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, School, Law

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• I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Rights, Years

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