Lawyers Quotes

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

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

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

I'm amazed at how [police officers] don't want to come to court. They want to make the case and they want it to get prosecuted, but they don't want to come testify. Sorry, but the ultimate way of writing your report is telling it to a jury. When I was a defense lawyer, I used to think all police officers were liars, but now I find that there are only a few. Most of them are pretty straightforward and do a good job. But there are some, and if I know that they are liars or I know they tend to exaggerate, I try to take that into consideration when I'm dealing with their cases.

Every new time will give its law.

A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

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.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

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

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legalprofessionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try tokeep the law mysterious and inaccessible.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Girls don't go to law school," I told him."No, but women do.

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ....... State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 March 2014

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

We find an abundance of anger and the desire to destroy the opposition in any competitive human environment. Hate sparks contest, and in the modern world, attorneys are the paid gladiators of warring parties. Attorneys are for hire to the highest bidder. Attorneys ply their trade by dealing in the commerce of anger and hatred.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.