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Lawyer Sayings

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
~Charles Dickens

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There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
~Robert Smith Surtees

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When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs. ~German Proverb

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Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law. ~Ambrose Bierce

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Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white. ~Proverb

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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. ~Gerald F. Lieberman

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. ~French Proverb

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
~Edward F. Halifax

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Divorce is a game played by lawyers. ~Cary Grant

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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
~Jean Giradoux

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A good lawyer is a great liar. ~Edward Ward

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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or of divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. ~Samuel Goldwyn

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
~Oscar Wilde

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All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to do. Well, the very opposite applies with judges.
~Peter Cook

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America has a legal system that is the laughing stock in the civilized world.
~John Stossel

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.
~Ambrose Bierce

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
~Voltaire

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It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~Jerome K. Jerome

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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ~Charles Lamb

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