Lawyer Quotes

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.

Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.