Will Rogers Quotes

The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

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

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

There's no certainty in the law.

I labor to be brief, and manage to be obscure.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.

I find it very interesting to keep people uncertain about what is what and figure it out as they go.

Vagueness and good law are simply incompatible.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.