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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. -- David Mellor
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. -- Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers are natural politicians. -- Clarence Darrow
Lawyers don't run sales forces. -- Jeff Raikes
Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad. -- Richard Belzer
Lawyers are predators in grey worsted -- Tom Holt
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb
Lawyers are predators in grey worsted. -- Tom Holt
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. -- Elbert Hubbard
Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy. -- Charles Stross
Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. -- Shirin Ebadi
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. -- Thomas More
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. -- Aaron Allston
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. -- Stephen King
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles. -- George Herbert
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. -- Henry George Bohn
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions. -- Arlen Specter
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues. -- Mason Cooley
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country. -- Michel de Montaigne
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles. -- Margaret Deland
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. -- Horace
Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating. -- James Huneker
Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others. -- James Huneker
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them. -- Dick Cavett
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. -- Elbert Hubbard
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. -- George Bernard Shaw
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case. -- Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up. -- John Naisbitt
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. -- Horace Walpole
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up. -- John Naisbitt
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. -- Samuel Johnson
Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone. -- Deborah Rhode
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts. -- Julian Fellowes
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. -- Benjamin Franklin
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law. -- Jonathan Swift
Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad. -- Charles Bukowski
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. -- Charles Dickens
Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we? -- Jane McGonigal
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. -- Jodi Picoult
Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. -- Richard Barnet
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. -- Hedy Lamarr
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. -- George Crabbe
Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do. -- Ken Starr
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. -- James Alan Gardner
Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something. -- Bob Woodward
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. -- Robert Whitlow
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. -- Barney Frank
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. -- Alfred Nobel
A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree. -- Tom Paxton
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. -- Shirin Ebadi
Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left. -- Walter Besant
Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. -- John Gierach
Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged. -- Karl Shapiro
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent. -- Oscar Wilde
Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing. -- Ann Coulter
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it -- Michio Kaku
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not? -- Lawrence Lessig
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right. -- Thomas Bernhard
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. -- James E. Rogers
I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers. -- John Adams
Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it. -- Adam Smith
Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue. -- Gabriel Macht
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. -- Floyd Abrams
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. -- Charles Dickens
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. -- Will Rogers
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. -- Richard Pryor
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. -- Will Rogers
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. -- Donald Rumsfeld
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
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
Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up. -- Danny DeVito
We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum. -- Franklin Graham
I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.' -- Chris Matthews
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. -- Grover Norquist
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. -- Noah Feldman
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know. -- Marian McPartland
If the present 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
At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things. -- Peter Diamandis
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people. -- Paul Broun
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. -- John Grisham
Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. -- Sean Combs
You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. -- Tony Dungy
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science. -- Nicholas Stern
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance. -- Jane Siberry
I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good. -- Master P
Litigation only makes lawyers fat. -- Wilbur Smith
The trouble with law is lawyers. -- Clarence Darrow
Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers. -- Billy Carter
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. -- Thomas Jefferson
Southern lawyers don't read novels much. -- Harper Lee
I don't trust lawyers and journalists. -- Lisa Ling
Divorce is a game played by lawyers. -- Cary Grant
Life is very tenacious in these lawyers. -- Alexandre Dumas
Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers. -- Robert A. Heinlein
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. -- Felix Frankfurter
Be friendly but not chummy with your lawyers. -- Georges Doriot
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect. -- Charles Churchill
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. -- Steven Wright
A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy. -- Dennis E. Adonis
Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers. -- Marlin Fitzwater
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. -- Paul Watson
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers. -- Franz Kafka
Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. -- C. J. Cherryh
Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers. -- Ilona Andrews
I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers. -- Mike Oldfield
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living. -- Lawrence Lessig
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank. -- Robert Cray
Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards. -- W. C. Fields
The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. -- Clarence Darrow

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