James Gosling Quotes

The trouble with law is lawyers.

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

America is the paradise of lawyers.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

One lawyer will make work for another.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

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

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.