Lawyer Quotes - Page 7

• Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

  Gary Haugen

  Justice, Done, Want

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2016

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

  Jules Verne

  Law, Bravery, Historical

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.211, Jules Verne

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• I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

  Oliver North

  Feet, Lord, Good Lawyer

  "Trusting 'in the Lord and a Good Lawyer'". Newsweek, December 08, 1986.

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• The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Asking, Garbage, Arise

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• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

  Ivanov I

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• God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, God, Honesty

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Dec. 1733

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• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Two Sides, Feet

  Charles Lamb (1848). “Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd”, p.108

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• 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

  Jobs, Divorce, Friendly

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Whoever tells the best story wins.

  John Quincy Adams

  Funny, Winning, Stories

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• Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Law, Protect

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  "'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled': climate-change talk from an unlikely source" by David Runnalls, www.theglobeandmail.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Truth, Consistency

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• 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”

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• Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Suicide, Differences

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.111, University of Georgia Press

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Wheels

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

  Henny Youngman

  Two, Asks

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• To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Country, Moving, Games

  "SeinLanguage" by Jerry Seinfeld, New York: Bantam, (p. 90), 1993.

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• Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Law, Duty

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• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  Patrick Murray

  Funny, Winning, Sometimes

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• Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Funny, Yield, Law Students

  "Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision".

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• Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Law, Attorney

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Ronald Reagan's Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 31, 1968.

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