"Litigation only makes lawyers fat."
Read quote
12 likes
Lawyer quotes
Lawyer
380 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Lawyer
Browse quotes that often appear alongside lawyer — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Lawyer quotes (page 2 of 19)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!"
Read quote
12 likes
"When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer."
Read quote
12 likes
"Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer."
Read quote
11 likes
"The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.""
Read quote
9 likes
"Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke."
Read quote
9 likes
"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."
Read quote
9 likes
"If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with."
Read quote
9 likes
"A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade."
Read quote
8 likes
"Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind."
Read quote
7 likes
"[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over."
Read quote
7 likes
"Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair."
Read quote
7 likes
"With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on."
Read quote
7 likes
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
Read quote
6 likes
"Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public."
Read quote
6 likes
"Law, without force, is impotent."
Read quote
6 likes
"Southern lawyers don't read novels much."
Read quote
6 likes
"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."
Read quote
6 likes
"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
Read quote
6 likes
"I say, break the law."
Read quote
6 likes