Lawyers Quotes

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Well I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.