Lawyer Quotes

• Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Lawyer

• Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

  

  Marlin Fitzwater
  • Opportunity
  • Ought
  • Blast

• I mused upon the ironic fate which had compelled a mathematical genius to make his sole confidant of a philistine lawyer, and induced that lawyer to repeat it confusedly to an ignoramus at twilight on a Scotch hill.

  

  John Buchan
  • Fate
  • Twilight
  • Ironic

• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Law
  • College
  • Technology

• Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Silence
  • Lawyer

• As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Judges
  • Clients
  • Condemn

• I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

  

  Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Money
  • Lawyer

• Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Help
  • Education
  • Sister

• I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Pretty
  • Independent
  • Lawyer

• The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Life
  • Law
  • Decision

• My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.

  

  Albert S. Ruddy
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Lawyer

• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Play
  • Cop
  • Crook

• I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.

  

  Max Burns
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Lawyer

• I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.

  

  Ben Bass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • May
  • Next
  • Starvation

• I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Black
  • Lawyer

• I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • World
  • Music
  • Money

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

  

  Lawyer
  • Lawyer

• I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, 'Can you help us make investments?' That led to me getting into the real estate business.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  

  Bill Veeck
  • World
  • Baseball
  • Lawyer

• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Death
  • Lawyer
  • Wedding

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

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Language
  • Should
  • Used

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