Great Lawyer Quotes

#1. Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own.

Gore Vidal

#2. A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

Magdalen Braden

#3. Historian David M. Potter pointed out in 1942 that as president-elect, Lincoln was no more than "simply a lawyer from Springfield, Illinois - a man of great undeveloped capacities and narrowly limited background. He was more fit to become President than to be President.

Harold Holzer

#4. I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Kenny G

#5. Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

Jeff Galloway

#6. I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

John Katzman

#7. Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#8. Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Levon Helm

#9. The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would be destroyed by that attitude.

Rodger Kamenetz

#10. For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

#11. My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

Jonathan Swift

#12. Some people say lawyers are sons of bitches. I won't argue with that. But when it comes time to negotiate, it's great to be a lawyer.

Manel Loureiro

#13. Y'know," I said, "I liked you better when I hated you.

Scott Tracey

#14. The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Janet Reno

#15. Love covers all sins

Anonymous

#16. A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#17. I was falling in love.
I am losing my father.
With Emilio Vargas.
To smoke and shadow.
My heart fluttered.
My heart aches.
To feel it.
To deny it.
Life.
Death.
Possibilities.
Endings

Sarah Ockler

#18. A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Chief Joseph

#19. I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.

Robin S. Sharma

#20. A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. 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

#22. There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.

Edmund Burke

#23. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

Channing Tatum

#26. Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

Dhani Jones

#27. The truth
a hideous spectacle!

Conrad Aiken

#28. A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair;
Honesty shines with great advantage there.

William Cowper

#29. I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick.

Stephan Pastis

#30. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Gerard Butler

#31. What I am interested in is the present time.

Sophie Marceau

#32. Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

Curt Weldon

#33. Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

Stephen Gillers

#34. Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

Muhammad Ali