- The law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing
- Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair ship
- Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates
- The practice of law in most courtrooms today is about as modern as performing surgery in a barbership.
- I never met a litigator who did not think that he was winning the case right up to the moment when the guillotine came down.
- Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends
- There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable
- Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others
- Lawyer: An individual whose principal role is to protect his clients from others of his profession
- Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished
- here is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy: that's why there are lawyers.
- He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides
- I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters
- Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge
- A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.
- One who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation
- Those who use the law as shoemakers use leather; rubbing it, pressing it, and stretching it with their teeth, all to the end of making it fit their purposes
- A chimney sweeper who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade
- Appeal: in law, to put the dice into the box for another throw
- There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- A good lawyer is a great liar
- It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or of divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery
- Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
- America has a legal system that is the laughing stock in the civilized world
- Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.
- I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
- Lawyers, I suppose, were children once
- What's the use of that, Wendell, a lawyer can't be a great man
- They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.
- Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty.
Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace.
Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
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- A lawsuit is a fruit tree planted in a lawyer's garden.
- It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands .
- I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
- Lawyers are like beavers. They get in the mainstream and damn it up
- There are more lawyers in just Washington, D.C. than in all of Japan. They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
- One who defends you at the risk of your pocketbook, reputation and life
- Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.
- If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end
- A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.
- We have too many lawyers chasing too many dollars through too many lawsuits, and it is time to do something about it.
- When there is a rift in the lute, the business of the lawyer is to widen the rift and gather the loot
- Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.
- This is what has to be remebered about the law; beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.
- Only painters and lawyers can change white to black
- I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character
- In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
- Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost."
- I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
- They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.
- A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns
- Lawyer: One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
- Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers
- Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.
- A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.
- Personally, I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of a conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
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