Lawyer Quotes - Page 37

• No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

  Irving Kaufman

  Law, Dynamics, Fruit

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• Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

  William Congreve

  Atheist, Pimp, Atheism

  William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.8

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

  Dean Smith

  Fun, Mean, Assistants

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• The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

  Voltaire

  Law, Opinion, Cry

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.326

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• The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

  Michael Gruber

  Book, Air, Intellectual

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• Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

  Robert Mondavi

  Father, Wine, Stanford University

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• I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

  Andrew Thomas

  Law, Effort, Boards

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• The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

  Reggie Jackson

  Years, Faces, Cards

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• I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

  John Gay

  Skills, Twists, Ease

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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• The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

  John Gay

  Judging, Debt, Demand

  John Gay (1818). “The beggar's opera. Oxberry's ed”, p.80

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• Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Party, Reality

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.326

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• Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.

  Paul Goodman

  Mother, New York, Men

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 145-146), 1956.

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• Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

  David Berg

  Successful, Trials, Opponents

  David Berg (2006). “The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win”, p.12, American Bar Association

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• Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

  Jerome Frank

  Majority, Predictions, Precedent

  Jerome Frank (2017). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.207, Routledge

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• Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

  Jerome Frank

  Trials, Outcomes, Foolish

  Jerome Frank (2017). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.231, Routledge

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• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

  Ann Romney

  Mother, Thinking, Doctors

  "Ann Romney on her battle with multiple sclerosis and the race for the White House". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2015.

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• Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

  Dan Savage

  Writing, People, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue.

  Gabriel Macht

  Issues, Events, Needs

  "Gabriel Macht Talks SUITS Season 4 Finale". Press conference, collider.com. March 4, 2015.

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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• Well, I've just played a midwife but never for a second would I think that I could ever deliver a baby! So, to that essence, it's still pretending. But it's worked out ok so far, touch wood, because you're doing so many different things - if you're playing a lawyer or someone medical, you can dip your toe into a lot of different things.

  Christine Bottomley

  Baby, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

  David Shapiro

  Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

  David Shapiro

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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