Quotes About Lawyers

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

The only way to beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

They were chosen for their perfect ignorance of these things. That is how the system works. In the end, the lawyers and judges happily step aside and hand the entire process over to a dozen complete amateurs. It would be funny if it were not so perverse.

The towering lie of the criminal justice system—that we can reliably determine the truth, that we can know "beyond a reasonable doubt" who is guilty and who is not—is built on this whopper of an admission: after a thousand years or so of refining the process, judges and lawyers are no more able to say what is true than a dozen knuckleheads selected at random off the street.

understood that the actual reason courtrooms often have no windows is to prevent the parties from heaving lawyers out of them.

99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.

If no one had an army, armies would not be needed. But the same can be said of most lobbyists, PR specialists, telemarketers, and corporate lawyers. Also, like literal goons, they have a largely negative impact on society. I think almost anyone would concur that, were all telemarketers to disappear, the world would be a better place.

these same parties self-consciously rejected any remaining elements of their old working-class constituencies, and instead became, as Tom Frank has so effectively demonstrated, the parties of the professional-managerial class: that is, not just doctors and lawyers, but the administrators and managers actually responsible for the bullshitization of the caring sectors of the economy.15

The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.

With a gang of sharp lawyers you can safely steal whatever you like. Lawyers are the hit men of our times.

Avoca?ii sunt asasinii pl?ti?i ai zilelor noastre.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.