Problems - Quotes

A clever person turns great problems into little ones and little ones into none at all. - Chinese Proverb

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. - Dorthea Brande

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. - Robert Schuller

All problems become smaller if you do not dodge them, but confront them. - Unknown

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. - Robert A. Humphrey

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. - Ralph Marston Sublime

Confronting problems is choosing to suffer now in the hope of future gratification rather than choosing to continue present gratification in the hope that future suffering will not be necessary. - M. Scott Peck

Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won't know where the problems will occur. You won't have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise. - Donald Trump

Do not take on the problems of other people. They are better equipped to handle their own problems than you are. - Unknown

Do not take your problems to bed with you. They are bad and unhealthy companions for natural sleep and rest. - Unknown

Don’t buy other people’s problems. - Chinese Proverb

Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done – it’s downhill from then on. - Norman Vincent Peale

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. - Joseph Sugarman

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can’t find any problem, he loses all reason for living. - Gao XingJian

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. - Stanley Arnol

For problems that arise when one steps into the shadow, the obvious cure is to step back into the sunlight. - Anon

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J. Krishnamurti

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively. - Norman Vincent Peale

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humour in it. - Frank A. Clark

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. - Shimon Peres

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. - Jim Stovall

If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. - J. Krishnamurti

If you don’t understand a problem, then explain it to an audience and listen to yourself. - Tom Hirshfield

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path - Swami Vivekananda

In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man’s problems but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterance, and the day’s good deed. - Clare Boothe Luce

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein

It is by seeking within that we learn to resolve our problems and difficulties. Problems which confront us now must be solved or we will meet them again along our spiral of development. - Unknown

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. - M. Scott Peck

It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place. - Edward De Bono

It’s much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility. - Albert Schweitzer

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. - Unknown

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting. - Unknown

Never demand that the person who brought up a problem must also be the one to solve it. It may be merely his duty to bring it up: but it is the team’s duty to help solve the problem. - Unknown

Never let a problem become an excuse. - Robert Schuller

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. - Robert Schuller

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution. - An Wang

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper. - Shulamith Firestone

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. - Voltaire

One should never impose one’s views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself. - Albert Einstein

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. - Robert Schuller

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. - Hugh Miller

Problems are the price you pay for progress. - Unknown

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. - M. Scott Peck

Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith. - Royden G. Derrick

Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period of gestation then sets in, during which these issues are mulled over. You put them in your mind and consciously or unconsciously work at them at odd hours of the day or night – even at work. It is somewhat analogous to trying to place a name on the face of someone you’ve met before. Often the solution to a problem comes to you in much the same way you eventually recall the name. - Bill Hewlett

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome. - George Harrison

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them. - Dr Steve Maraboli

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists. - Edward De Bono

Studying the inverse problem always helps. - Tom Hirshfield

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta

The best way to tackle any problem is one step at a time, and the first step is to tell someone about it. - Unknown

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. - Unknown

The finger pointing at a problem is not the problem. It is a common occurrence to find people attacking the finger when their problems are pointed out. - Unknown

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist. - Zig Ziglar

The highest mountain has been conquered. We have even landed a probe called Sojourner on Mars. What is your problem again? - Unknown

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. - Albert Einstein

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. - Theodore Rubin

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions. - Frederick Moore Vinson

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. - Gay Talese

The size of your problems is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. don’t overestimate your problems and underestimate yourself. - Unknown

The second assault on the same problem should come from a totally different direction. - Tom Hirshfield

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. - W. H. H. Gordon

There are many difficult problems and decisions that actually improve when they are left to simmer a little while. - Unknown

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking complete mental health. Some of us will go to quite extraordinary lengths to avoid our problems and the suffering they cause, proceeding far afield from all that is clearly good and sensible in order to try to find an easy way out, building the most elaborate fantasies in which to live, sometimes to the total exclusion of reality. - M. Scott Peck

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you’ve really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress. - Scott Alexander

Walk away from it [your problem] until you get stronger. All your troubles will be there when you get back, but you will be better able to cope. - Lady Bird Johnson

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

We should see problems and difficulties as opportunities for advancement rather than obstacles in our path. By looking at our problems in a different light, much of our frustration will disappear and we can see them from a more rational point of view. - Unknown

We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourselves, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feeling. - Geshe Kelsang

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. - Ralph Marston

When one’s own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is life-saving to listen to other people’s problems. - Suzanne Massie

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. - Anthony D'Angelo

When the problems mount so high that you cannot see anything else, it pays to step back from your work so you can see the big picture. - Unknown

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. - M. Scott Peck

When you are surfing and there is a big wave coming your way, you can either catch and ride it or be overwhelmed by it. Rise above your problems and ride them to victory rather than letting them drown you. - Unknown

When you can’t solve the problem, manage it. - Robert Schuller

When you don’t share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. - Chuck Palahniuk

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. - Earl Nightingale

15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy

Give up your need to always be right

Give up your need for control

Give up on blame

Give up your self-defeating self-talk

Give up your limiting beliefs

Give up complaining

Give up the luxury of criticism

Give up your need to impress others

Give up your resistance to change

Give up labels

Give up on your fears

Give up your excuses

Give up the past

Give up attachment

Give up living your life to other people’s expectations

Quote Worthy

Labour is man’s greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfil nothing, without working. - Orville Dewey

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future. - Dr. Abdul Halam

He who labours diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labour. - Menander Of Athens

Before the reward there must be labour. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. - Ralph Ransom

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. - Denis Waitley

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. -Elanor Roosevelt

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions. - Will Smith

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades

Laws - Quotes

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man with a club is a law-maker. - Jack London

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. - Ambrose Bierce

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! - Lord Bryon

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. - Robert A Heinlein

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system. - Ellen DeGeneres

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle

Every land has its own law. - J. Carmichael

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behaviour. All patterned behaviour tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. - Frank Herbert

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead. - Horace Mann

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. - Ulysses S. Grant

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. - Julius Caesar

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ‘tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. - John Selden

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. - Thomas Hobbes

In all governments, there must of necessity be both the law and the sword; laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness; and arms without laws, would produce not subjection, but slavery. The law, therefore, should be unto the sword what the handle is to the hatchet; it should direct the stroke and temper the force. - Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. - Charles Colton 

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. - Niccolo Machiavelli

It is wrong to consider that courts are established for the benefit of the people. Those who want to perpetuate their power do so through the courts. If people were to settle their own quarrels, a third party would not be able to exercise any authority over them. Truly, men were less unmanly when they settled their disputes either by fighting or by asking their relatives to decide for them. They became more unmanly and cowardly when they resorted to the courts of law. It was certainly a sign of savagery when they settled their disputes by fighting. Is it any less so, if I ask a third party to decide between you and me? Surely, the decision of a third party is not always right. The parties alone know who is right. We, in our simplicity and ignorance, imagine that a stranger, by taking our money, gives us justice. - Mahatma Gandhi

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. - John Paul Jones

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it. - Henry Ward Beecher

Just because something is a law doesn’t make it right. - Unknown

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end. - G. P. Morris

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice. - Bertrand Russell

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue. - Epictetus

Law is a bunch of words written on paper by people who are generally considered to be liars and thieves. So let’s try to figure out what’s right rather than what’s legal. - Joe Rogan

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus, all practicing lawyers – and most others in the profession – will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. - Alan Dershowitz

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

Law is the rudder of the ship of state. - Austin O’Malley

Law is the supreme power in the state, through its legislature, commanding what is right, and condemning what is wrong. - Calvin Townsend

Law without justice is a wound without a cure. - William Scott Downey

Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. - Albert Einstein

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. - Henry Ward Beecher

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? - Charlotte Brontë

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. - Paolo Bacigalupi

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in. - William Shenstone

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, namely, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. - George Savile

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. - Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are only words, words written on paper, words that change on society’s whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. - John J. Miller

Laws are subordinate to custom. - Titus Maccius Plautus

Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. - Scottish Proverb

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. - Oliver Goldsmith

Laws like to cobwebs catch small flies, great ones break thro' before your eyes. - Benjamin Franklin

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made. - George Washington

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham

Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. - Samuel Smiles

No man is above the law, and no man is below it. - Theodore Roosevelt

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. - Abraham Lincoln

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Jean Anouilh

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. - Iain M. Banks

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous. - Edmund Burke

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson

So diverse and adverse are the decisions of different high courts, and of the same high court, that in examining cases, as precedents by which to try a suit, the lawyer encounters a perpetual change of cloud and sunshine, and occasionally a real thunder storm, succeeded by a burning sun. What was law at one time, is not law now – what is law in one place, is not in another – locality, individuality, prejudice, and perpetual change, characterize the decisions of judges learned in the law. - Levi Carroll Judson

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. - John Locke

The final test of civilization of a people is the respect they have for law. - Lewis F. Korns

The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. Law and order enforced with justice and by strength lie at the foundations of civilization. Law must be based upon justice, else it cannot stand, and it must be enforced with resolute firmness, because weakness in enforcing it means in the end that there is no justice and no law, nothing but the rule of disorderly and unscrupulous strength. Without the habit of orderly obedience to the law, without the stern enforcement of the laws at the expense of those who defiantly resist them, there can be no possible progress, moral or material, in civilization. - Theodore Roosevelt

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law. - Thomas Hobbes

The law is the public conscience. - Thomas Hobbes

The natural law is the creator’s law, it is a gift. So, humans must make themselves available to this law in order to know who they are. Since the natural law is a law of healthy; respect of the latter will make Earth balanced, and no more will we hear about global warming, pollution, deforestation … - Benin

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man wilfully, and to render every man his due carefully. - Aristotle

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. - Benjamin Franklin

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law. - Diogenes Laertius 

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown

There are times, too, when the law doesn't give a damn who gets caught beneath its wheels. - Susanne Alleyn

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. - Aung San Suu Kyi

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. - Hunter S. Thompson

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law’s treatment. - David Mamet

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. - Nelson Mandela

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights. - Calvin Coolidge

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. - Sydney Smith

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli

Where law ends, tyranny begins. - William Pitt

Without law men are beasts. - Maxwell Anderson

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands. - Victor Cousin

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Lawyers - Quotes

A countryman between two Lawyers, is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

A lawyer and a cart wheel must be greased. - John R. Beard

A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe. - Robert Christy

Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated has the burden of explaining who will take their place. Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination, and the victims of racial violence?... Lawyers are the simple yet essential means by which people seek to vindicate their rights and we must not foreclose that means. - John Curtin

As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. - Abraham Lincoln

As to the essentials of a good lawyer, I have some very definite convictions. He should have a keen sense of right and wrong and a firm belief in basic moral values. I would hate to trust the welfare or protection of the life or property of any of my clients to a lawyer who had no respect for moral values, or one who had a callous indifference as to what was basically right and wrong. - Joseph T. Karcher

At the most pragmatic level, lawyers are society's professional problem solvers. Lawyers are called upon to make distinctions, to explain how and why cases or experiences are alike or different. Lawyers are expected to restore equilibrium, to be balancers. Every discipline, every profession, every job, and every calling has a cutting edge. At that cutting edge, lines are drawn. Lawyers and judges are society's ultimate line drawers. On one side of the line, the conduct, action, or inaction is proper; on the other side of the line, it is not. - Rennard Strickland & Frank T. Read

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. - Felix G. Rohatyn

Good trial lawyers are like writers with heavily plotted stories and sharply defined characters. They lay out each detail precisely to create an illusion of seamless inevitability, leaving no room for doubt, not possibility for an alternate ending. - Elyssa East

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. - Charles Lamb

He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J. Hunter

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby – not even money, certainly not my soul. - Mahatma Gandhi

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim. - Samuel Johnson

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade. - Charles Caleb Colton

In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day. - Fred Rodell

It does seem asinine to tolerate a system under which the lawyers always win, whether heads or tails come up. - Frank Cramer

It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law. - Moses Crowell

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. - Lamartine

It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way; and if there is no hole, to make one. - W. Ouseley

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus, all practicing lawyers – and most others in the profession – will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. - Alan Dershowitz

Lawyer even sounds like liar. - Walter Mosley

Lawyers are a bad lot.... They cheat their living out of honest people. - Albert R. Carman

Lawyers are doubters, skeptics; not in a bad sense. But they never know anything absolutely and utterly without qualifications or modifications. - G. N. Tillman

Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice. - Richard L Abel

Lawyers are like catfish. A nibble here, a nibble there ... before you know it the principal's gone, you've got a pile of bills, and not much else. - Meredith Blevins

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

Lawyers are like doctors. They've each a secret language of their own so that if you get a letter from one lawyer you've got to take it to another to get it read, just like a doctor sends you to a chemist with a rigmarole that no one else can read, so they can charge you what they like for a drop of coloured water. - Harold Brighhouse

Lawyers are like foxes, small and innocuous, but all the time stealthily sniffing the air. - Michael O’Sullivan

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. - John Gierach

Lawyers are like painters – once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again. - Peter Anderson Graham

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow

Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying. - Leo Reilly

Lawyers are like scissors; they never cut each other, but what is between them. - Unknown

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers – you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda

Lawyers are like wine – you can pay a lot of money for a fancy bottle that tastes like vinegar, or you can find a good deal that fits your budget and your palate alike. - Karen A. Covy

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. - Robert Christy

Lawyers are men who will swear black is white – if they are paid for it. - Edward Counsel

Lawyers are natural politicians. - Clarence Darrow

Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. - Jane Bryant Quinn

Lawyers are perceived by some to matriculate in a realm, if not of their own making, then at least of their own maintenance, in which the secrets of power over the political and legal machinery are reserved, protected, and ultimately manipulated for their own advantage and to the detriment and divestment of others. - Walter Bennett

Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B. McKay

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. - Charles Dickens

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. - Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there were no lawyers. - Ken Alstad

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way, this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational responses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman. - Thane Rosenbaum

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. - Lord Bolingbroke

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. - Jodi Picoult

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. - James Alan Gardner

Most of the dishonest lawyers are the product of dishonest clients – the demand creates the supply. - Morris Salem

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer. - Lani Guinier

Never enter into an argument with a lawyer, for, of necessity, it is time lost; not that lawyers are fools – far from it – but that their intellects are concentrated in the endeavour to make sophistries pass for truths. - Charles William Day

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. - Sinclair Lewis

Ours is a culture dominated by experts, experts who profess to assist the rest of us, but who often instead make us their victim. Among those experts whom we are often victimized the most notable are perhaps the lawyers. If you as a plain person take yourself to be wronged and you wish to achieve redress, or if you are falsely accused and you wish to avoid unjust punishment, or if you need to negotiate some agreement with others in order to launch some enterprise, you will characteristically find yourself compelled to put yourself into the hands of lawyers – lawyers who will proceed to represent you by words that are often not in fact yours, who will utter in your name documents that it would never have occurred to you to utter, and you will behave ostensibly on your behalf in ways that may well be repugnant to you, so guiding you through processes whose complexity seems to have as a central function to make it impossible for plain persons to do without lawyers. - Alasdair Macintyre

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers

People who use lawyers are not people you would really want to hang around with. - Deborah Ross

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. - C. J. Cherryh

Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve. - Thane Rosenbaum

Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot. - Adolphus William Ward

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial. - David Berg

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. - Clarence Darrow

The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict. - G. Christopher Ritter

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell. - Henry George Bohn

The most successful trial lawyers are often master storytellers, making their cases come to life for their jurors. The reason is that stories matter ... stories are the deepest and most obvious way that humans organize, communicate, receive, and digest facts. - G. Christopher Ritter

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation. - Robert H. Jackson

The only secret that the lawyer really possesses about the law is that no one can ever be certain of what the law is.... The lawyer is accustomed to the ways of bending and changing rules to suit his (or his client's) purposes, to dance in the shadows of the law's ambiguities. Rules hold no particular terror for the lawyer, just as the sight of blood holds no terror for the surgeon. Because he operates a system of rules, the lawyer becomes indifferent to them in the way that a doctor becomes indifferent to the humanity of the body that is lying on the operating table. - Jethro Lieberman

The question arises ... whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. - Florynce R. Kennedy

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief. Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave. - Abraham Lincol

We don't operate a system that guarantees a trial lawyer will really know what he or she is doing before handling a trial. Qualify as an attorney and you immediately have the right to screw up somebody's case in court. We lawyers have been left with a huge field in which to demonstrate our incompetence. - Keith Evans

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. - Charles Dickens

When the monetary damages are smaller, lawyers will find themselves less zealous in their pursuit of what they call justice. - Dean O’Hara

Where there's a will, there's a lawyer. - Robert Elliott

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honour consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder. - David Graham Philips