LAWYER QUOTES III

quotations about lawyers

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

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737

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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


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 fleas on the hide of human nature.

STEPHEN KING

"1922", Full Dark, No Stars

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

ALBERT R. CARMAN

Incurable!


As to the essentials of a good lawyer, I have some very definite convictions. He should have a keen sense of right and wrong and a firm belief in basic moral values. I would hate to trust the welfare or protection of the life or property of any of my clients to a lawyer who had no respect for moral values, or one who had a callous indifference as to what was basically right and wrong.

JOSEPH T. KARCHER

New Jersey Lawyer, Nov. 1986


A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe.

ROBERT CHRISTY

Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases


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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Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment.

ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON

Is Killing People Right?


Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice.

RICHARD L. ABEL

Lawyers in Society


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 unrequited lovers--you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants.

ANDRES RUEDA

The Clawback


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 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


The Post Office just recalled their newest stamps: They had a picture of lawyers on them ... and people couldn't figure out which side to spit on.

MARVIN LEBMAN

A Collection of Jokes and Funny Stories


What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator.

MARVIN LEBMAN

A Collection of Jokes and Funny Stories


It is an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o'.

JOHN RAY

A Complete Collection of English Proverbs