Lawyer Quotes - Page 5

• The law is reason, free from passion.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Passion, Law

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,

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• Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Law, Liberty

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Treatise by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Ch. 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of Laws, 1748.

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

  Elihu Root

  Practice, Would Be, Half

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• In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Rap, Mean, Winning

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• They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Together, Heirs

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.12, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

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• To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Law

  Following the Equator ch. 37, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• 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)

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• It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

  William P. Young

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, books.google.ru. June 20, 2008.

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• A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Understanding, Might, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

  Stephen Gillers

  Justice, Judging, Made

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• No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Rufus Choate

  Ignorant, Bible Study

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• In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession may be stronger by reason of his passage through its ranks, and that he may leave the law itself a better instrument of human justice than he found it.

  John W. Davis

  Heart, Ambition, Law

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• Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Deals, Gym

  Attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in "Watergate and the White House" by Edward W. Knappman, p. 100, 1973.

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• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Perspective, Style

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

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• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Inspiration, Law

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Fighting, Acceptance, Reality

  "Friends Remember Elizabeth Edwards; Muppets & Healthy Eating", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Principles, Bleak House

  Bleak House ch. 39 (1853)

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• You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Lying, Law, Duty

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• Lawyers are natural politicians.

  Clarence Darrow

  Politician, Natural

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• I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Winning, Risk

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

  Cary Grant

  Divorce, Games, Definitions

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Law, Political

  Essays of Elia "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" (1823)

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