Subject: Government » Lawyers

The first thing we do, let’s kill the lawyers.

(1564 – 1616) English dramatist & poet

Goembel John E. – 1867–1946 – "The defense rests."

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

(1805 – 1864) English editor, novelist & sporting writer

Jury: A body of twelve men selected to decide which of the contestants has the better lawyer.

Lawyer: A fellow who is willing to go out and spend your last cent to prove he’s right.

Lawyer: Men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Lawyers make excellent patients; they have excellent health care and they never get better.

(1959 – ) American actor

Beneath this smooth stone by the bone of his bone – Sleeps Master John Gill; – By lies when alive this attorney did thrive, – And now that he's dead he lies still.

Every girl dreams, when they grow up, they’re gonna marry a doctor, marry a lawyer; but me, I had to marry the only lawyer in America with a conscience.

(1963 – ) American comedian

Criminal lawyer is a redundancy.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Lawyer: A professional advocate hired to bend the law on behalf of a paying client; for this reason considered the most suitable background for entry into politics.

Beware of and eschew pompous prolixity.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

(1860 – 1904) Russian short-story writer, playwright & physician

All lawyers are cut from the same cloth: fleece.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men, but the guilty never escape unscathed; my fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

(1933 – ) American attorney

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

(1922 – 2003) author & playwright

And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on Me; and let there be lawyers so people don't blame everything on Satan.’

Canadian comedian & author

Karen, I am a lawyer, which means, unlike you, I actually passed a bar.

(1963 – ) Canadian-American actor

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor