Tom Holt Quotes

America is the paradise of lawyers.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

One lawyer will make work for another.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

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

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

Thankfully, I am not a lawyer.

[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.

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

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

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