[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Showing posts with label Lawyer Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lawyer Quotes. Show all posts
You're an attorney. It's your ...
You're an attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal and distort everything, and slander everybody.
You cannot live without the la...
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.
Woe unto you also, ye lawyers!...
Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne.
While law is supposed to be a ...
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.
Whenever a bitter foe attack t...
Whenever a bitter foe attack thee Sheathe thy sword, they wrath restrain; Or else will magistrates and lawyers Divide thy wealth, thy purse retain.
Were we to act but in cases wh...
Were we to act but in cases where no contrary opinion of a lawyer can be had, we should never act.
We all know here that the law ...
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
War is the statesman's game, t...
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
There is no better way to exer...
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
The world has its fling at law...
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
The minute you read something ...
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
The leading rule for the lawye...
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
The lawyer's truth is not Trut...
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The doctor sees all the weakne...
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
The bar does not claim to be t...
The bar does not claim to be the communion of saints. It only claims to be a noble organization of fallible men, in a fallible society. It concedes that all lawyers sometimes blunder in a professional service; that many sometimes sin against professional duty; that some are incompetent and some are vicious. But it asserts its own dignity and integrity, by a greater contempt than the world has for its dunces, by a severer reprobation of its knaves.
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