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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

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

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains. — Carolyn Heilbrun

The law works in mysterious ways — Kenneth Eade

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

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

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

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

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

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it. — Robert Black

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law. — Jonathan Swift

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame. — Carolyn R. Dimmick

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. — Anton Chekhov

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers. — Akio Morita

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. — Florynce Kennedy

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something. — Bob Woodward

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

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. — Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing. — Craig Ferguson

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

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

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone. — Deborah Rhode

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

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much. — Peter Sotos

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. — Paul Watson

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. — Melvin Belli

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

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. — Martha C. Nussbaum

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers. — Robert A. Heinlein

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them. — William Jennings Bryan

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. — Will Rogers

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances. — Ross Macdonald

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated. — Lynne Stewart

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

No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side. — Russell Pearce

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

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

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research. — Nancy Grace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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'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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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