Legal Quotes

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
William Dunbar

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
Sol Wachtler

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost

Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.
Jay Alan Sekulow

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

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
Sam Waterston

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere

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.
Dennis Hastert

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert

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.
Jack Kingston

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
John Harington

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright