LAWYER QUOTES III

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Why don't you ever hear of a lawyer getting attacked by a shark at the beach? Professional courtesy.

THOMAS F. SHUBNELL

Greatest Jokes of the Century


Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

STEPHEN KING

"1922", Full Dark, No Stars

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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

Clouds of Witness

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A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

MELVIN BELLI

attributed, Jar of Quotes

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What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator.

MARVIN LEBMAN

A Collection of Jokes and Funny Stories


Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

THANE ROSENBAUM

The Myth of Moral Justice


People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

WILL ROGERS

"Helping the Girls with Their Income Taxes", The Illiterate Digest

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No group has a greater responsibility today in helping maintain our free institutions of society than the lawyer. In fact, being a man of the law, he is uniquely equipped through training, outlook and experience to be a leader of his fellow citizens. American history confirms his tremendous contribution--helping draw up the basic documentation of our freedom, serving as a leader in local, state and national government, participating in the affairs of community life. At this hour, America especially needs the leadership of the lawyer. The moral fabric of our Nation is badly torn. Disrespect for law and order is widespread. The very principles of free government are being scorned and perverted. Flouting the law has almost become a hobby for some individuals.

J. EDGAR HOOVER

Texas Bar Journal, Feb. 22, 1964


Lawyers are like wine--you can pay a lot of money for a fancy bottle that tastes like vinegar, or you can find a good deal that fits your budget and your palate alike.

KAREN A. COVY

When Happily Ever After Ends


Jury--Twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

LENORA OLIVER

Herald, 1938


Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated has the burden of explaining who will take their place. Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination, and the victims of racial violence?... Lawyers are the simple yet essential means by which people seek to vindicate their rights and we must not foreclose that means.

JOHN CURTIN

remarks at American Bar Association annual meeting, Aug. 13, 1991


A countryman between 2 Lawyers, is like a fish between two cats.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737

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Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot.

ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD

"Abraham a Sancta Clara", Collected Papers


Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

ELBERT HUBBARD

Fra Magazine, Sep. 1911

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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

Dorothy Forster


Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying.

LEO REILLY

How to Outnegotiate Anyone


Lawyers are like painters--once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again.

PETER ANDERSON GRAHAM

The Red Scaur


Lawyers are a bad lot.... They cheat their living out of honest people.

ALBERT R. CARMAN

Incurable!


Lawyer even sounds like liar.

WALTER MOSLEY

Walking the Line

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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

MAHATMA GANDHI

An Autobiography

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