Top 78 Good Lawyer Sayings
#1. Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor
Kenneth Eade
#2. A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
Mark Twain
#3. The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.
Mark Twain
#4. Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.
Sean Patrick Maloney
#5. Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." - ROMAN DE RENARD
Frances Gies
#7. A good lawyer serves you from the cradle to the grave
Saira Viola
#8. A good coat is like a good lawyer. it covers your ass.
Lee Child
#9. My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.
Tamara Ecclestone
#10. A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
Walter Lippmann
#11. You might want to grab some popcorn. Because a good lawyer could argue with himself. Two attorneys going head to head is like a verbal MMA cage match with no rules.
Emma Chase
#12. The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
Bun E. Carlos
#14. I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can't do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
Ann Romney
#15. A good lawyer, just like a good poker player, must always keep his cards close to his chest.
Mallika Nawal
#16. The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Janet Reno
#17. I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
Abigail Van Buren
#18. The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.
Erma Bombeck
#19. My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have ... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.
Max Weinberg
#20. We must all commit Sister Monica Joan to our prayers. We must seek God's help. But I will also engage a good lawyer." I
Jennifer Worth
#21. A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend.
E.L. Konigsburg
#22. A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.
Magdalen Braden
#23. Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.
Vantile Whitfield
#24. A good lawyer is part con man, part priest
promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?
Paul Levine
#25. The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
Hilary Mantel
#28. A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
Alan Dershowitz
#29. What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.
Sonia Sotomayor
#30. Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
Gracie Allen
#31. Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
Josh Billings
#32. I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North
#33. I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country [Italy]. Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.
Andrea Bocelli
#34. In my culture, shoes are more or less the first thing women look at. Women look at the build, and then they look at the shoes. If you don't have nice shoes, you don't have money. When I meet a lawyer, the first thing I look at are his shoes. If he has good shoes, he's getting my money.
Method Man
#35. I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.
Richard Dawkins
#36. The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
John Jay Chapman
#37. Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.
Jerome Frank
#38. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr
#39. We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
Nicky Gumbel
#40. I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.
Jack Kirby
#41. It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build India,' it was all about being an accountant, a lawyer, an engineer. So it was this idea that professionals would build the country.
Shekhar Kapur
#42. They should get another lawyer," he said. "Surely there are better people around. That man with the big nose - you know the one - they say that he's very good. The judges can't take their eyes off his nose, and so they always decide in his favour.
Alexander McCall Smith
#43. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. Your brand is your personal lawyer ... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.
Carrie Preston
#46. My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.
Matthew McConaughey
#47. The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.
John Travolta
#48. There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.
D.L. Moody
#49. Shit. Is this a good idea?
I'm a lawyer for Christ's sake.
I look at Lorelai and she looks so happy that I don't care anymore.
Screw it! If she wants to vandalise this prick's car, I'm game.
I can come up with an alibi for us both later ...
Joanne McClean
#50. I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.
John Hope Franklin
#51. Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.
William S. Burroughs
#52. Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?
Lawrence Lessig
#53. I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.
Owen Wister
#54. Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.
Gary Lawyer
#55. My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
Mickey Kaus
#56. My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.
Max Von Sydow
#57. When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
Constance Baker Motley
#58. I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.
Ben Bass
#59. By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.
Keith Rothfus
#60. Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.
David Letterman
#61. If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.
Tom Christiansen
#62. If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.
Richard Ingrams
#63. I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
Anna Quindlen
#64. He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
John Leguizamo
#65. Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
Joe Jamail
#66. When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.
Ben Barnes
#67. ood legal writing does not sound as though it was written by a lawyer. Good legal writing, like good writing in general, is writing that keeps the readers' interests foremost.13
Ross Guberman
#68. I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
#69. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.
Louie Gohmert
#71. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo
#72. I do want to believe in love. I want all of its trappings, and if it costs me my sanity and a very good divorce lawyer, so be it.
Addison Moore
#73. I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.
Susan Isaacs
#74. I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
Demetri Martin
#75. I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.
Floyd Abrams
#76. Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
Charles Dickens
#77. (Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?
Lisa Henry
#78. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him - but he was a good and faithful horse.
-Frank
From "Eulogy for a Percheron" in "The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems
Greg Seeley
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