“What’s the use of that, Wendell, a lawyer can’t be a great man!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., on his son’s plans to attend law school Consider honestly whether any of the following reasons are your primary motivation for applying to law school: You have always wanted to be a lawyer You want an all purpose degree
"What's the use of that, Wendell, a lawyer can't be a great man!". Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., on his son's plans to attend law school "A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.". President Theodore Roosevelt, attempting to ...
“What’s the use of that, Wendell, a lawyer can’t be a great man!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., on his son’s plans to attend law school “A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief.” — Franz Kafka “The first thing we do. Let’s kill all the lawyers.” — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2
Nov 23, 2011 · When he announced his intentions of reading law, his father exclaimed, “What's the use of that, Wendell, a lawyer can't be a great man!” Oh, for times and voters that savvy! No matter: Our budding...
I don't want a Lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do. -- J.P. Morgan. Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up. -- John Naisbitt, in Megatrends.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief.". -- Franz Kafka. The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. -- Judge Irving Kaufman.
Dow told the men who he was, and that he had recently had a vision where he had been given a tour of Hell, much like the traveler in Dante's Inferno. When one of the lawyers asked him what he had seen, he replied, "Very much what I see here: all of the lawyers, gathered in the hottest place.".
If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary". "Lawyers Are": One skilled in the circumvention of the law. "Lawyers Are": A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Benjamin Franklin. There's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. "Lawyers Are": Those who lie, conceal and distort everything and slander everybody.
Bulls do not win bull fights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do. Old lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal. A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two. Between grand theft and a legal fee, there only stands a law degree.
Lorenzo Dow, an evangelist of the last century, was on a preaching tour when he came to a small town one cold winter's night. He entered the local general store to get some warmth, and saw the town's lawyers gathered around the pot-bellied stove discussing the town's business.
This compendium of Legal Quotes was first published at gGreen.com on March 22, 1995. It was last updated on March 7, 2016. It does not purport to be a list of all the Legal Quotes I have ever heard, just the ones I like.
on March 7, 2016. It does not purport to be a list of all the Legal Quotes I have ever heard, just the ones I like.
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