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  • Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

    Education   School   Two  
  • I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

    Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy
  • A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

    Song: The Three Great Stimulants, Album: Dog Eat Dog
  • My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

    Animal   Land   Dear Lord  
  • I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

    Who I Am   Years   Lawyer  
  • I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

    Jobs   Lawyer   Wanted  
  • A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

    Jobs   Skeletons   People  
    Sol Stein (2005). “Other People”, p.168, iUniverse
  • When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

    Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.
  • At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

    Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated
  • I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

    Years   People   Upset  
    The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.
  • I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

  • My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I was destined to go into the bar business like him or go to college and be a lawyer. I was not encouraged, and in a way maybe that made me more hardheadedly committed to being a writer.

    Father   College   Desire  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

  • When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

    "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.
  • My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

    Twitter post from Jul 15, 2016
  • It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

    Law   Politics   Ruins  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Doctrine: Beng the Personal Utterances of the President on Various Matters of Vital Interest, Authoritatively Arranged for Reference in Their Logical Sequence; a Brief Summary of the Principles of American Citizenship and Government”
  • I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

  • The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

    Order   Law   Giving  
    1972 'Apologia', in the Harvard Law Review, Jun.
  • Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

    Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

  • I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

    Horse   Book   School  
  • I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

  • If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

    Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
  • You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

    Law   Class   Community  
  • I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

    Funny   Humor   Law  
  • This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations Are Not People!' Wow, I thought we were past the point in this country where some people aren't people just because they have different color skin or different religion or were born in a lawyer's office, only exist on paper, have no soul and can never die.

    Country   Fighting   Past  
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