Lawyer Quotes · Page 25

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

— Hugh Jackman

If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.

— Tom Christiansen

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

— Nicholas Johnson

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

— Alex James

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

— Scott Bakula

“Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.”

— John Grisham

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

— Richard Barnet

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

— Mason Cooley

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship…

— Michel de Montaigne

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be…

— Vincent Bugliosi

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest…

— Travis Knight

“Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of…

— Lionel Shriver

I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her…

— Viet D. Dinh

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

— Arthur Cheney Train

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to…

— Jacques Verges

I'm Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because…

— Steve Zissis

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's…

— Bharati Mukherjee

We got married drunk in Vegas . . . We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel…

— Janeane Garofalo

I can't tell you how many times I get into a taxicab in New York or Los Angeles, and I'm talking to…

— Andrew Zimmern

When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Sometimes…

— Michelle Obama

“The Lawyers Know Too Much THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of old John Marshall. They…

— Carl Sandburg

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take…

— John B. Watson

When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't…

— Nelson Mandela

Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court?…

— Scott Simon

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

— Julian Assange

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

— Barney Frank

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

When you get involved in litigation with attorneys, man, they drag you down in the mud.

— Porter Wagoner

I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

— Tucker Max

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

— Katie Piper

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

— F. Lee Bailey

If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.

— Alex Stamos

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

— Frederick Wiseman

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”

— Mario Puzo

Lawyers would have a hard time making a living if people behaved themselves and kept their promises

— Thomas Fuller

“You can’t truly act as if you’re a lawyer or a lifter until you know how to think like one.”

— Lou Schuler

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

— Sonny Bono