Will Rogers Quotes About Lawyers

Quotes about: Lawyers

• 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)

• 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

• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Humor, Feet, Law Students

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Law Students, Honest

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

• The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Way, Lawyer

• Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.

  Will Rogers

  Writing, Trying, Crafts

  "The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

• The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Giving, Few Words

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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