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Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Oct 1, 2025
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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 conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.
Whoever tells the best story wins.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
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