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The Quotable Lawyer
Author(s): Tony Lyons
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date: 22 Mar. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 1602399476
- ISBN-13: 9781602399471
Book Description
Words from renowned lawyers, not-so-renowned lawyers, judges, authors, politicians, philosophers, and preachers make up this collection of over five hundred memorable, bite-sized quotations about the lives of lawyers; the law; landmark cases; and quips, jokes, and humorous sayings.
Included in this diverse compendium are quotations by and about lawyers and law:
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”Clarence Darrow
We do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.”G. K. Chesterton
A lawyer will do anything to win a casesometimes he will even tell the truth.”Patrick Murray
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
This book promises–within the reasonable and practicable bounds outlined above–to provide hours (alas, unbillable) of entertainment and enlightenment. It makes a perfect gift for the lawyer in the family, the lawyer of the family, or anyone interested in the law and its development from ancient times to the present day.
