Quotes with lawyer

  • A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
  • The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
  • When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

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  • Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alan Dershowitz A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • A. Whitney Brown A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
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  • Mario Puzo A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Sir Walter Scott 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.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Barten Holyday A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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  • Barney Frank And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • George Herbert Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Charles Lamb He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Alphonse Karr I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • John Keats I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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