“An honest blunder in the use of the language is not dishonest… What is honest is not dishonest.”
Charles Bowen (1835–1894) English judge
Angus v. Clifford (1891), 60 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) C. D. 456.
“What use is an honest lawyer when what you need is a dishonest one?”
The Seige of the Villa Lipp (1977)
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
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Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
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“When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Latterday Warnings; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?”
Hal Clement book Mission of Gravity
Source: Mission of Gravity (1954), Chapter 14
Ferdinand Lundberg (1905–1995) American journalist
quoted in Stan D. Ross' The Joke's On... Lawyers https://books.google.com/books?id=uNt90TeLOxgC&pg, p. 43 (Federation Press, 1996)
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
