lawyers

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Deceive not thy physician, confesasor, nor lawyer.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

America is a paradise of lawyers.

Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of shears; they cut what comes between them, but not each other.

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

Chauncey Depew, when he was ninety-two, was asked: "What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.