Lawyer
One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.
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Lawyer Quotations
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lawyer Translations
lawyer in Afrikaans is advokaat, prokureur
lawyer in Dutch is verdediger, advocaat, pleitbezorger
lawyer in German is Rechtsanwalt {m}, Rechtsberater {m}, Advokat {m}
lawyer in Italian is legale, giurista
lawyer in Norwegian is jurist, advokat
lawyer in Portuguese is advogado
lawyer in Spanish is abogado, jurista
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