Lawyer Quotes - Page 21

• Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

  John Naisbitt

  Mainstream, Beavers, Damn

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• I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

  Dan Quayle

  Knows, Worthless

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• "Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths

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• "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Law, Ability

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• The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

  Raymond Chandler

  Law, Kind, Fellows

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.118, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Law, White, Judging

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• Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Suffering, Injury

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.611

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• I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Morality, Break

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

  Harriet Martineau

  Law, Creative, Vices

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.168

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• I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Growing Up, Reading, Character

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• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

  David Alan Grier

  Men, Doctors, Black

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• I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

  Lexa Doig

  Careers, Ideas, Arguing

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• Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

  Thomas More

  Inspirational, Matter, Disguise

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• With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Law, Physicians, Medical Profession

  The Health Master Ch. 1

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• But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Hands, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.214, Collector's Library

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• But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Mere

  "Bleak House".

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• I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Shameful

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• I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Law, Lambs, Used

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• 'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

  R.D. Blackmore

  Mean, Thinking, Glasses

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• Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Law, Fool

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• That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Together, Fifty

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.50

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• If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Law, Needs, Ifs

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• Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

  Arthur Cheney Train

  Law, Class, Soul

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