LAWYER QUOTES IV

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Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying.

LEO REILLY

How to Outnegotiate Anyone


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 in the business of advocacy, not judgment.

ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON

Is Killing People Right?


Jury--Twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

LENORA OLIVER

Herald, 1938


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

JOHN RAY

A Complete Collection of English Proverbs


If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

MAHATMA GANDHI

An Autobiography

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We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

WILL ROGERS

"Helping the Girls with Their Income Taxes", The Illiterate Digest

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Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?"

LAWRENCE LESSIG

Free Culture

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Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

ELBERT HUBBARD

Fra Magazine, Sep. 1911

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Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice.

RICHARD L. ABEL

Lawyers in Society


I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Democracy in America


How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? How many can you afford?

BLANCHE KNOTT

Blanch Knott's Treasury of Tastelessness


Americans see lawyers as obstructionists, as defenders of murderers.... In reality, lawyers are the glue that holds society together. Without lawyers ... without law, you have anarchy.

BILL CUNNINGHAM

Cincinnati Magazine, Sep. 1992


He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client.

J. HUNTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737

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Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

notes for a law lecture, July 1, 1850?

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