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Lawyers Quotes

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

– Cary Grant

Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.

– Benjamin Todd Jealous

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

– Bob Ney

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

– Arlen Specter

Lawyers don’t serve everyone… Lawyers right now can say, ‘I’m not the person to help you on that issue; I don’t agree with what you’re trying to do;’ and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.

– Bill Haslam

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

– Anton Chekhov

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

– Antonin Scalia

We’re talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it’s very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

– Alberto Gonzales

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

– Cass Sunstein

The trouble with law is lawyers.

– Clarence Darrow

I don’t know why his lawyers didn’t tell him, ‘You don’t have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don’t have to answer.’

– Chris Matthews

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

– Carl Friedrich Gauss

Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

– Adam D’Angelo

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

– Anton Chekhov

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

– Aaron Allston

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they’re wrong. And not just admitting it – also realizing it.

– Alan Dershowitz

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

– Bill Williams

After ‘Entourage,’ it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn’t been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops – which I haven’t quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

– Autumn Reeser

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

– Gene Hackman

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn’t make abstract paintings.

– Frank Stella

I think that the difference between ‘The Sopranos’ and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren’t about the writer himself.

– David Chase

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they’re all lawyers. I’m in the family business.

– Danny Huston

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

– Dashiell Hammett

There are several authors who are also lawyers – and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

– Candace Camp

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

– Donald Rumsfeld

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

– Dario Fo

Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn’t the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?

– George Packer

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

– Florynce Kennedy

Of course I’ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I’ve got em ’cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

– Danny DeVito

In any profession, whether it’s teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we’re not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that’s when the profession goes into decline.

– David Boies

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