Top Lawyers Quotes

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility...

The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

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

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while,...

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured yo...

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.