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Quotes About Lawyers

Sniblit makes it easy to find the quotes that you're looking for. Below is a compilation of famous quotes and sayings relating to lawyers. A law is a rule, order, commandment, or a declaration that gives permission for it to be enforced. A lawyer is a person who practices law, as an attorney, solicitor or counsel.

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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.  ~ Will Rogers


A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.  ~ Welsh proverb


Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.  ~ Erik Pepke


If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?  ~ Thomas Jefferson


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


Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.  ~ Horace


How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.  ~ Lucille Ball


People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.  ~ Will Rogers


The trouble with law is lawyers.  ~ Clarence Darrow


A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.  ~ Joyce Carol Oates


Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.  ~ Anton Chekhov


A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.  ~ Lord Brougham