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Quotes About Lawyers

Oh yeah. A lot of fun. Staring across the table at five lawyers, all scheming to pounce on every word, every syllable, salivating as they dream of getting more of your money. Why can't your lawyer get the case settled? It should've been over months ago.
~ John Grisham
Half the fee. That's how the big tort lawyers operate, by referrals. Grunts like us go out and find the cases, then hand 'em over to the guys who know what they're doing, and then sit back and wait on the money.
~ John Grisham
Two thousand lawyers in twenty countries, half of them in New York City alone, a thousand right up there packed together on floors 30 through 65.
~ John Grisham
Criminal violence is the largest percentage of so-called self-defense cases lawyers will handle.
~ Marc MacYoung
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
~ Tom Shadyac
The cameras in the Simpson courtroom not only encouraged lawyers to preen for the lens and prolong the life of every goddamned motion to increase their time on the air, it reduced a criminal trial to the status of a sporting event.
~ Marcia Clark
You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
~ Marco Rubio
Speaking of which Ã¢â'¬Â¦ how many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "Please." She rolled her eyes. "Three. One to climb the ladder, one to shake it, and one to sue the ladder company. Old as the hills.
~ Unknown
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.
~ Marian McPartland
Once humans figure out how to access and control the psychic world, then the bean counters and lawyers will get to work." "That's fucking scary," Jolie replied. "If that happens, then when you dream, expect to pay for access to the psychic plane like paying for an Internet connection, plus all the related bullshit. Paranormal pop-up ads. Subconscious spam.
~ Unknown
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
~ Mario Puzo
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
~ Mario Puzo
Are we rich?" "We're comfortable." He sometimes said things like that instead of yes or no. That's how lawyers answer questions.
~ Unknown
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
~ Will Rogers
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
~ Steven Wright
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
~ Will Rogers
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.
~ Erma Bombeck
Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start...
~ Danny DeVito
Roman lawyers were expressly forbidden to receive fees for their service, and it is often rightly said that what Cicero gained by pleading in high-profile cases was public prominence.
~ Mary Beard
In some cases, even learned Roman lawyers misunderstood what they read in the Twelve Tables. The idea that a defaulting debtor who had several creditors could be put to death and his body divided between them, in appropriately sized pieces, according to the amount owed, looks like one such misunderstanding (or so many modern critics have hoped).
~ Mary Beard
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.
~ Richard Pryor