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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. -- Patrick Murray
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. -- Steven Wright
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. -- Edmund Burke
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. -- William Julius Wilson
Lawyer even sounds like liar. -- Walter Mosley
Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. -- H. L. Mencken
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. -- Chief Joseph
Of course I'm smart. What were you expecting-'Lordy, Mr. Lawyer Man, I don't know nuthin' 'bout filin' no injunction'? Please," Alayna muttered. -- Karyn Langhorne Folan
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country. -- Chief Joseph
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. -- Will Rogers
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The good lawyer is the great salesman. -- Janet Reno
The law is reason, free from passion. -- Aristotle
You are remembered for the rules you break. -- Douglas MacArthur
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. -- Charles Lamb
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- William Shakespeare
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer. -- Christopher Darden
A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade. -- Abraham Lincoln
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same. -- Benjamin Franklin
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. -- Henry David Thoreau
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. -- Charles Dickens
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Benjamin Franklin
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. -- Jeremy Bentham
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition. -- John Harington
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. -- Mario Puzo
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." -- Franz Kafka
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts. -- Frederick Wiseman
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. -- Will Rogers
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. -- Constance Baker Motley
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. -- Lisa Randall
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer. -- Anita Hill
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
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity. -- Pete Wentz
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer. -- Jessi Klein
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.' -- Lena Dunham
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. -- Jean Giraudoux
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. -- J. P. Morgan
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product. -- Bob Ney
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy. -- Jacques Verges
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
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for. -- Robin S. Sharma
Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. -- Sidney Sheldon
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. -- Paul Ryan
I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be. -- Abhishek Bachchan
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet. -- Alan Dershowitz
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates. -- Ben Stein
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. -- Jerry Lewis
I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that. -- Lloyd Blankfein
My father was a lawyer. -- Pat Robertson
I'm an old trial lawyer. -- Patrick Leahy
I'm a hard headed lawyer. -- Eric Holder
Buy a friend; hire a lawyer. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
I am not an accomplished lawyer. -- Abraham Lincoln
Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission. -- Ambrose Bierce
I always wanted to play a lawyer. -- Billy Bob Thornton
Got a budget for the lawyer though. -- Rick Ross
A good lawyer is a bad Christian. -- John Lothrop Motley
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. -- George Herbert
U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer. -- Abigail Washburn
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What's the difference? -- Maynard James Keenan
Love has no place in a lawyer's office. -- Elizabeth Aston
The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell. -- Henry George Bohn
The day was dark as a lawyer's soul. -- Stuart MacBride
Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer! -- Robin Williams
You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer. -- Groucho Marx
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. -- Robert Kennedy
They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster. -- Edward Bennett Williams
Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer. -- Vincent Bugliosi
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. -- Sue Grafton
Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. -- C. J. Cherryh
Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases. -- David Boies
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. -- William Dunbar
I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything! -- Larry David
Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases. -- David Boies
Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet. -- Clarence Darrow
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. -- Oliver North
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living. -- Lawrence Lessig
Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden. -- John Florio
Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away? -- Carl Sandburg
Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation. -- John Currin
Is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.... -- Warren E. Burger
What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer. -- John Lurie
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. -- Rufus Choate
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. -- Raymond Chandler
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book. -- Marvin Mitchelson
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. -- David Shapiro
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress. -- Geraldine Ferraro
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. -- Augustus William Hare
Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom. -- Felipe Esparza
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer. -- John Grisham
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies. -- J.P. Donleavy
If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer. -- Frank Lampard
Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge! -- Stephen Gillers
But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer. -- Charles Dickens
I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course! -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher. -- Roger McNamee
You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire? -- Kevin Hearne
I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer? -- Natasha Lyonne
I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer. -- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden. -- Greg Poehler
... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. -- Shana Alexander
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character. -- Vera Farmiga
Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd. -- Tony Iommi
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience. -- Tom Clancy
A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets. -- Sol Stein
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. -- Benjamin Franklin
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. -- Walter Dean Myers
As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. -- Jay Sekulow

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