Legal Quotes
433 quotes
"She’s not a pothead. That thing on her neck is a vase. And anyway, I’m all for legalization. After all, why should surrealism be illegal?"
"If it is suggested that I preached the idea of freedom for my country and this is against the law, I plead guilty to the charge. If that is the law here I say I have done that and I request you to convict me, but do not impute to me crimes I am not guilty of, deeds against which my whole nature revolts and which, having regard to my mental capacity, is something which could never have been perpetrated by me. If it is an offence to preach the ideal of freedom, I admit having done it. I have never disputed it. It is for this I have given up all the prospects of my life. It is for this that I came to Calcutta, to live for it and labour for it. It has been the one thought of my waking hours, the dream of my sleep. If that is my offence, there is no necessity of bringing witness to bring into the box to dispose different things in connection with that. Here am I and I admit it… If that is my fault you can chain me, imprison me, but you will never get out of me a denial of that charge."
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
"People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."
"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
"The trouble with law is lawyers."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"It is legal because I wish it."
"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit."
"I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care."
"Misery is the company of lawsuits."
"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
"Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy."
"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."
"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
"A good lawyer is a bad Christian."
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."
"I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example."
"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."
"Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent."
"I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out."
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
"Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges."
"The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich."
"I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can."
"The good lawyer is the great salesman."
"I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility."
"I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer."
"One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now."
"Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom."
"Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes."
"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."
"As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't."
"I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well."
"I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these."
"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman."
"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
"As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win."
"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."
"I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age."
"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
"As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one."
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