Quote by Sir Thomas More

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.

Summary

This quote suggests that lawyers have a tendency to alter or conceal the true nature of legal matters. They are skilled at presenting arguments and crafting narratives that serve their clients' interests, often obfuscating the facts or manipulating the law to their advantage. As legal professionals, their role involves employing various strategies and tactics to create a favorable impression or outcome, even if it means manipulating the truth.

Topics

By Sir Thomas More

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mis

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

When you return to your homes rise up to the height of a gen

When you return to your homes rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free Government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.

Abraham Lincoln

Men Work Government Home Honor

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Henry David Thoreau

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't wa

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

Shaquille O'Neal

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nat

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your indiv

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into co

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many mens wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a ones wood-lot to such anothers. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pret

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, p.333

Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lig

Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lighter side of life/ And we can also laugh at others/ And ridicule others!

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or ano

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Life Time Mystery Thetimes Wonder Wonders