215 Quotes About Lawyers

St. Genesius is the patron saint of clowns and lawyers. Clearly, the Lord doesn't always work in mysterious ways.

It appears that workers compensation lawyers only get paid if they win their case. If your case lies outside of mainstream cases with a history of winning, they are unlikely to take it.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

The land was torn apart in a legal dispute. Soon it was so devastated, nothing could live here- not plant or animal. Only lawyers. But eventually the place fell into lawlessness, and lawyers can't exist in an area of lawlessness, so they went feral. Some say they still roam the land. You'll suddenly hear someone yell, 'Objection!' and then you'll be torn apart like an improperly witnessed contract.

In my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office.

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legalprofessionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try tokeep the law mysterious and inaccessible.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

That is why, in the course of human history, truth-telling has been designated as the highest of virtues in every culture, and why the credibility that results therefrom is always so powerful.