Quotes on Lawyer

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'