And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
~ W. S. Gilbert
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
~ Anatole France
In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
~ Louis Nizer
Well I don't know as I 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
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
~ Roscoe Pound
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
~ Wendell Phillips
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
~ Charles Dickens
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
~ Learned Hand
Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
~ Spanish Proverb
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
~ Eli Broad
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
~ Danny Huston
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
~ Washington Irving
When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while, the teacher draws full pay.
~ Mike Gallagher
NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.
~ Michael Hayden
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
~ Thom Mayne
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
~ Adam Cohen
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~ Anton Chekhov
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.
~ Marian Mcpartland
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
~ Richard Pryor
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
~ Thomas Friedman
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
~ Matt Gonzalez
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
~ Horace
The trouble with law is lawyers.
~ Clarence Darrow
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
~ Will Rogers
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
~ Jeremy Bentham
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
~ Charles Lamb
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
~ Aaron Allston
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
~ Tammy Bruce
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
~ Bill Williams
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.
~ Jay Alan Sekulow
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
~ Felix Frankfurter
In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
~ Bob Ney
As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
~ Sam Waterston
