Lawyer Quotes
We have a compilation of some lawyer quotes and sayings. Lawyers are hated, but are a necessary evil. We have jokes and quotes on lawyers, but we can’t avoid them. We have to go to a lawyer, in our bad times. And they are the ones who saves your skin, at least one of yours. Problem is they skin the other one:
“A lawyer saves one yours’ skin, and skin the others’ ”
~Sound of life. We made it up:)
“Lawyer: An individual whose principal role is to protect his clients from others of his profession.”
~Anonymous
A similar one, “Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers”
~Elbert Hubbard
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade”
~Abraham Lincoln
“It is better to be a mouse in a cat’s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands”
~ Spanish Proverb
One more proverb, “When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there’s a lawyer among the dogs.”
~German Proverb
“The good lawyer is the great salesman.”
~Janet Reno
“A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth”
~Patrick Murray
“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 (More Baseball quotes)
“A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.’
~ Mario Puzo, from the God Father
“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table”
~Jean Kerr
“Divorce is a game played by lawyers.”
~Cary Grant (More divorce quotes)
“Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.”
~Franklin P. Jones
“Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer.”
~Will Rogers.
“A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5, and ends giving $5 worth for $500.”
~Benjamin H. Brewster
“Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case.”
~Edward Packard, Jr.
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
~Charles Lamb
“A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from you enemies and keeps it to himself.”
~Henry Bougham
“A man without money needs no more fear a crowd of lawyers than a crowd of pickpockets”
~R. Rinkle
“Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same”
~Benjamin Franklin
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair ship.”
~Adlai Stevenson
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
~William Shakespeare
And the ultimate lawyer quote is
“America is the paradise of lawyers.”
~David J. Brewer
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