A lawyer’s job is often viewed as a serious and dry profession. But it doesn’t have to be all business all the time! In fact, there’s plenty of room for humor in the legal field. To lighten up your day, here are 40 funny quotes for lawyers. Enjoy!
1. There are three sorts of lawyers – able, unable and lamentable. – Robert Smith Surtees
2. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five. – Steven Wright
3. A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a “brief.” – Franz Kafka
4. Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer – you gotta go to the same guy. – Ronny Chieng
5. To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We’re all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box. – Jerry Seinfeld
6. Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case. – Edward Packard, Jr.
7. If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. – Charles Dickens
8. Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. – Jeremy Bentham
9. In the courtroom, it’s where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There’s a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I’ve always felt that way – I’ve been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. – Woody Harrelson
10. It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. – Thomas Jefferson
11. The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency to a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau
12. A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – H. L. Mencken
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13. A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. – Mario Puzo
14. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. – Charles Lamb
15. To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. – Clarence Darrow
16. The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. – William Shakespeare
17. Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law. – Ambrose Bierce
18. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost
19. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has the superior opportunity of being a good man. – Abraham Lincoln
20. Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole lifestyle a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect – Hunter S. Thompson
21. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. – Benjamin Franklin
22. The good lawyer is the great salesman. – Janet Reno
23. Politicians were mostly people who’d had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. – George R.R. Martin
24. Whoever tells the best story wins. – John Quincy Adams
25. Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. – George Bernard Shaw
26. I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. – Fred Allen
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27. Good lawyers know the law. Great lawyers know the judge. – Unknown
28. How many lawyer jokes are there? One, the rest are true stories. – Thomas F. Shubnell
29. The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. – Jeremy Bentham
30. In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. – Lenny Bruce
31. The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. – Antonin Scalia
32. There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux
33. After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. – Michelle Alexander
34. I’m a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it. – Megyn Kelly
35. Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damages awards. – Jodi Picoult
36. Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. – Robert Whitlow
37. The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. – Will Rogers
38. There are no funny lawyers – only funny people who made a career mistake. – Robert J. White
39. Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. – Addison Mizner
40. A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. – Patrick Murray
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Conclusion of Funny Quotes for Lawyers
Whether you’re a lawyer yourself or you know one who could use a chuckle, we hope you enjoyed this list of funny quotes about lawyers.
If you have a favorite that we missed, let us know in the comments!
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