Quotes Regarding lawyers:

As a lawyer – never get mad, except on purpose, and rarely do it, except if the pay is handsome.

You can’t ever really insult, denigrate, belittle or even derail a lawyer. JMD

In my family, my mom’s a doctor, my dad’s a PsychD, my uncle is a psychologist, my aunt is a dentist, another uncle is a lawyer–so of course they all make sure that everyone at all times in our family is on some type of prescription medication!

I busted a mirror and got 7 years bad luck, but my lawyer’s trying to get me off with only 5 years.

A jury consists of 12 persons picked to determine who has the better lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer (Robert Louis Stevenson)

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo (that’s you, Ken)

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere

The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow

Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells

Sunlight is the best disinfectant from the NYSCPA

‘Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant’

Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” a well-known quote from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, refers to the benefits of openness and transparency. I invoke this quote often as executive director of the NYSSCPA, to illustrate that the most credible and respected organizations operate in an atmosphere of avowed openness. We should not only accept criticism and suggestions, we should embrace them. If questions from constituents, the public, or the media make leaders or other responsible parties obfuscate, the questions are usually valid and the answers are not. People who feel uncomfortable under the bright light of scrutiny and criticism often have something to hide.

A high level of openness is an identifying characteristic of well functioning democracy.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Addison Mizner

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Addison Mizner

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
Alan Dershowitz

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Misery is the company of lawsuits.
Francois Rabelais

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
Thomas Friedman

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Franklin P. Jones

It’s not corruption or tied it, it’s just a very long amazing story of unfortunate coincidences.
JMD.