Best Lawyer Quotes:

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

- William Julius Wilson

source: Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 1996.

topic: Perseverance, Creativity, Character, Best Lawyer

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Eye, Men, Law, Qualifications, Contingency

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

- Patrick Murray

topic: Winning, Lawyer, Telling The Truth, Legal Profession, Funny Lawyer

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

topic: Funny, Inspiration, Law, Law Students, Legal Ethics

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Best Lawyer, Sarcastic Love

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

- Craig Reucassel

topic: Anarchy, Firsts, Anarchist, Law Students, Legal Ethics

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Law, People, Would Be, Law Students, Funny Lawyer

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

- Charles Lamb

source: Charles Lamb (1848). “Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd”, p.108

topic: Law, Two Sides, Feet, Law Students, Different Sides

Whoever tells the best story wins.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Winning, Stories, Funny Lawyer, Best Lawyer

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

- John Keats

source: John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.263, Harvard University Press

topic: Thinking, Class, Monsters, Barristers, Best Lawyer

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

- Mario Puzo

source: The Godfather ch. 1 (1969). This line does not appear in the movie version of The Godfather.

topic: Funny, Humorous, Gun, Corleone, Best Lawyer

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

- Steven Wright

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thinking, Busted, Funny Lawyer

The trouble with law is lawyers.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Law, Feet, Lawyer, Best Lawyer

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

- Louis D. Brandeis

topic: Change, Men, Law, Law And Justice, Law Courts

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Advice, Lawyer, Trade, Best Lawyer

The law is reason, free from passion.

- Aristotle

topic: Philosophical, Passion, Law, Law And Justice, Best Lawyer

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

- Bill Veeck

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

- Woody Harrelson

topic: Play, Actors, Lines, Monologues, Delivering

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Hurt, Government, Guy, Best Lawyer, Big Corporations