Lawyer Quotes And Sayings
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“Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
– John Wooden
And one of my personal favourites: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become.”
– James Allen
“The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
– Timothy Ferris
“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.”
– Greg Evans
“You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.”
– Will Smith
“The greatest achievement was at first, and for a time, but a dream.”
– Napoleon Hill
“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.”
– Jeremy Bentham
“A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.”
– French Proverb
“The trouble with law is lawyers.”
– Clarence Darrow
“If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.”
– Charles Dickens
“Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.”
– Gerald F. Lieberman
“It is better to be a mouse in a cat‘s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands.”
– Spanish Proverbs
“God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers”
– Russian Proverb
“It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn’t.”
– Mignon Mclaughlin
“Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.”
– Eileen Goudge
“If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.”
– Richard Ingrams
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
– Charles Lamb
“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.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A lawyer’s dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.”
– Samuel Butler
“To some lawyers, all facts are created equal”
– Felix Frankfurter
“It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Lawyer, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.”
– Ambrose Bierce
“I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation, nor the musician’s, which is fantastical, nor the courtier’s, which is proud, nor the soldier’s, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer’s, which is politic.”
– Jacques from AS You Like It
“Why, may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he suffer this mad knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in’s time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?”
– Hamlet
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
– Voltaire
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“It isn’t against the Law to be an idiot.”
– Cassandra Clare
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