Tributes to Lawyers and Other Jokes
"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."
~ John Keats
“I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”
~ Will Rogers
“I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.”
~ Stephen Wright
"99% of lawyers give all the rest a bad name."
~ Anonymous
“If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers”
~ Charles Dickens
"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."
~ Mario Puzo
“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”
~ Mark Twain
“Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.”
~ H. L. Mencken.
“Woe to you lawyers also! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
~Jesus Christ