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The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create. — Steven Rattner

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school. — Smokey Robinson

Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts. — Craig Ferguson

His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it. — Robert A. Heinlein

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold. — Bob Hope

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. — David E. Kelley

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop

Let us kill all lawyers — William Shakespeare

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down. — Dale Dauten

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. — Steven Wright

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. — Abraham Lincoln

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. — Gene Hackman

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. — John Gierach

I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first. — Thomas Jefferson

Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life. — Lionel Shriver

Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan. — Warren Zevon

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education." — Rush Limbaugh

It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament. — Jerome K. Jerome

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this. — Warren Zevon

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. — Orson Welles

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

There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed. — Margaret Atwood

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. — George Bernard Shaw

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers. — Marlin Fitzwater

Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand — Celia Conrad

A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree. — Tom Paxton

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too. — Mike Judge

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess. — Michael Lewis

Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did. — David Farrier

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat. — Neil Cavuto

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers. — Marion Bartoli

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. — A. N. Wilson

Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers. — Ilona Andrews

The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public. — Steven Magee

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. — Washington Irving

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. — George Crabbe

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate. — Franklin Pierce

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. — Henry Rollins

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. — James Alan Gardner

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. — Melvin Belli

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What — Arthur Conan Doyle

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. — Thomas Jefferson

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that. — Scott Turow

for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers, — David Webster

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples ... do not f**k with me! — Courtney Love

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers. — Jean Monnet

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases. — Orrin Hatch

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W.E.B. Du Bois

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers. — Niall Ferguson

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts. — Julian Fellowes

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. — Jodi Picoult

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win ... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems. — Ben Carson

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

I've got so many lawyers waiting in line to see me, you'd think that tobacco was leaking from my breast implants. — Jimmy James

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. — Benjamin Franklin

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites — Agona Apell

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. — Stephen King

What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer. — Coreen T. Sol

We are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use. — Hilary Mantel

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say ... This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure. — Winston Churchill

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

(Temeraire "Can one hire a translator to say things properly?"
"Yes; they are called lawyers," Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself. — Naomi Novik

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

The law is like one of those sci-fi creatures that keeps growing limbs and spawning replicas of itself until they take over the entire world. — Melody A. Kramer

Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected. — John Grisham

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams. — Grady Booch

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

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers. — John Stossel

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

The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge — Calvin Coolidge

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. — Linus Torvalds

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people. — John Frusciante

If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it. — Elizabeth Chandler

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. — Benjamin Franklin

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House. — Thom Browne

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens

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

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London. — Cynthia Payne

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating. — Luanne Rice

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats. — Lamar Hunt

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. — Jerry Only

Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future. — Jackson Burnett

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going. — Jeffrey Toobin

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. — Robert Whitlow

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. — Jimmy Hoffa

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.
writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. — Felix Rohatyn

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away. — Lawrence Lessig

Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends. — Donna Leon

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers. — Jon Krakauer

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax. — Ann Richards

Sometimes he wondered if women were all lawyers, with an extensive code of Romantic Law that they kept stubbornly hidden from men. — Tessa Dare

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say. — Robertson Davies

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? — Thomas Sowell

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. — Hedy Lamarr