28 quotes found
“Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.”
“If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?”
“As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that...”
“As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.”
“The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that ...”
“Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.”
“When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.”
“The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.”
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”
“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
“I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.”
“As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.”
“They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.”
“From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.”
“A lawyer must first get on then get honor and then get honest.”
“Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.”
“It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.”
“A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.”