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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

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers. — Woody Allen

And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same. — Malvina Reynolds

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

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. — Gerald F. Lieberman

For the lawyers, who cared not about the moral aspect of the case, but only, so to speak, about its contemporary legal aspect. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art. — Tom Shadyac

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

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

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function. — Victor Borge

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants. — Ruchi Sanghvi

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews ... The lawyers in government are damn Jews. — Richard M. Nixon

We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes. — Nicky Gumbel

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

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. — Jane Bryant Quinn

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

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan

There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers. — Stephen Holmes

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated. — Warren E. Burger

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers? — Bill Cosby

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law. — Voltaire

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. — Will Rogers

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. — Kin Hubbard

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. — Mignon McLaughlin

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. — Donald Rumsfeld

Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards. — W.C. Fields

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. — Gelett Burgess

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. — Aaron Allston

I don't know why anyone wants to get married," said Burke. "I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce. — Michael Thomas Ford

...it is crucial to realize that an once of student affairs administration prevention can stave off a pound of lawyers. — Peter F. Lake

Trials for lawyers are like bills. It seems that you finish paying one, and feel that feeling of relief, then it's time to pay it again. — Kenneth Eade

I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain. — Shel Israel

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it. — Douglas William Jerrold

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women. — Rick Perry

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honourable and leisurely plunder. — Gabriel Chevallier

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. — Elbert Hubbard

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. — Thomas Adams

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. — Thomas More

When most of us hear the word cells, we think biology. I think penitentiary. (It's an occupational hazard.) — Reginald Dipwipple

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. — Barney Frank

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator. — Ron Brackin

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich. — Gavin Rossdale

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. — Mike Oldfield

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law. — Charley Reese

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them. — Dick Cavett

Be suspicious of the litigious. — Stewart Stafford

Once I broke him out of jail, as it were, I would be responsible for him until my lawyers took over. — Hunter S. Thompson

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. — Richard Barnet

The Lawyers of Fate demand a loophole in every prophecy. — Terry Pratchett

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. — Lucille Ball

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you. — Anthony Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People make this kind of money. Lawyers are just good at figuring out how to siphon a piece of it their way. — Elizabeth Camden

What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start.. — Danny DeVito

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others. — James Huneker

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth. — Pete Morin

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government. — Ken Starr

99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name. — David Gerrold

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour — Thomas Jefferson

What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals. — Charles Bukowski

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants. — Shirin Ebadi

Law school was, for the most part, full of overindulged kids looking to become lawyers either to please daddy or to bring home the big paycheck. — David Feige

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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