“He's left completely flat-footed. The last he knew, there were civil lawyers working on difficulties that have arisen.”
Joe Stogner
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
Charles Lamb
“We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”
Jean Giraudoux
“A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.”
A. Whitney Brown
“I am very sorry that some colleagues, some lawyers -- because I too am a lawyer -- were killed,”
Jalal Talabani
“Everyone knew that the lawyers had to do their job and review these things carefully, and that's what we've done.”
Mike White