Quotes About Lawyers

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