Quotes and Sayings About Lawyer
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
-- Aaron Allston -
U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.
-- Abigail WashburnSource : "Singing songs to connect America and China" By Abigail Washburn, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2012.
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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.
-- Adolf Hitler -
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
-- Akio Morita -
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
-- Alex James -
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
-- Alexander Pope -
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
-- Alexei SayleSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
-- Andrew Johnson -
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 Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
-- Anthony KennedySource : "The Essential Right to Human Dignity". Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 03, 2005.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
-- Antonin Scalia -
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Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
-- Arlen Specter -
When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients
-- Arn Tellem -
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
-- Barack Obama -
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
-- Barney Frank -
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
-- Bella Abzug -
Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
-- Bernhard Schlink -
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
-- Big Bill Broonzy -
You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.
-- Billy Joe ShaverSource : Billy Joe Shaver, Brad Reagan (2005). “Honky Tonk Hero”, p.187, University of Texas Press
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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
-- Billy Sunday -
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
-- Bob Woodward