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“Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.”

Funny Faces Mets Humorous Lawyer Crocodiles

“If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?”

Ifs Needs Problem Funny Humorous Determine Lawyer

Author:George Carlin

“At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.”

Feelings Funny Conflict Humorous Ill Lawyer Trials Fees Ill Feelings

Book:Mere Anarchy

Source: Mere Anarchy

“My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.”

Dad My Dad Lawyer Grandfather Mum Uncles Cousin My Grandfather

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“Litigation only makes lawyers fat.”

Law Lawyer Fats

Author:Wilbur Smith

“The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.”

Should Wells Art Philosophy Literature Study Lawyer Faculty Engineers Acquaintance

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.”

Years Lawyer Who I Am Short Time Big Corporations

Author:John Grisham

“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.”

Years My Own Prison Faults Lawyer Misfortunes Clients

Author:John Grisham

“People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.”

People Different Reason Lasts Girl Deals Week Court Lawyer Restaurants Settlement Alimony

Author:Gay Talese

“I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.”

Thinking Too Much Industry Lawyer Mentality Music Industry Accountants

Author:Chuck D

“If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Done Wanted Certain Wonder Particular Busy Lawyer Restaurants Executives

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.”

Giving Wells Law Certain Hours Cases Risk Perspective Expected Lawyer Appeals Firm Clients Incentives Law Firms Billing

Author:Robert Pozen

“As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.”

Citizens Injustice Lawyer Vindicated

Author:David Baldacci

“I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.”

Ifs Lawyer Bored My Time Bankers Bored To Death

Author:Eli Broad

“Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too!”

World Years Wells Seems Too Much This World Agree Congress Lawyer Senate Lawmakers

Author:James Belushi

“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!”

Firsts Beautiful Saws Impossible Decided Theatre Lawyer Movie Theatre

Author:Roberto Benigni

“And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.”

Felt Grew Comfortable Grew Up Lawyer Trials Performing Courtroom Trial Lawyers

Author:Scott Bakula

“With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.”

Sometimes Break Wonderful Goes On Degrees Dues Lawyer Disgusting Breaking Down Intricate

Author:Sonny Bono

“Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.”

Fine Lawyer

Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.”

Lawyer

Author:Clive Anderson

“I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.”

“I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.”

Writing Book Hard Enough Lost Difficult Cases Lawyer Impressed Had Enough

Author:Floyd Abrams

“Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.”

Years America Guy President Millions Cutting Fame Taxes Including Lawyer Trials Fund Legends President Obama Dozen Earning Taxpayers Jerry Tax Cuts Hedge Fund Trial Lawyers

Author:Joe Conason

“On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.”

Years Law Next Minutes Lawyer January

Author:Johnnie Cochran

“When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.”

School Leader India Trade Unions Lawyer Harvard Trade Unions Business School

Author:P. Chidambaram

“Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.”

Ifs Knows Needs Matter Information Perception Court Who You Are Lawyer Ease Clients Expertise

Author:Samuel Dash

“If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.”

Ifs Want Study College Musician Doctors Lawyer Crafts

Author:Billy Eckstine

“I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.”

Years Different Law Teach Ten Lawyer Angle Different Angles

Author:Alex Flinn

“Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.”

Law Guy Company Lawyer

Author:Luc Ferrari

“We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.”

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Author:Alberto Gonzales

“If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.”

Ifs Knows States Next Doors Taxes Waste Lawyer Lots Of Money Requirements Accountants

Author:Bob Goodlatte

“I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.”

Knows Used Crime Willing Unique Beats Prison Phones Lawyer Backgrounds Used To Be Suspense Cop Reporters Phone Calls Specialty

Author:Lisa Gardner

“Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.”

Needs Believe Important Running Able Certain Issues Office Degrees Lawyer Backgrounds Running For Office

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.”

Years Has Beens Father Birth Pages Moved Lawyer Copies Blank Back Again Blank Pages Natal

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.”

Jobs Dangerous Lawyer Iran Dangerous Jobs

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.”

Littles Said Reality Easy Lawyer Tubes

Author:Joni Mitchell

“A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.”

World Reality Eye Suffering Tree Cry Mercy Lawyer Bends In The Road

Author:Tom Paxton

“I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.”

Trying Country Reality Towns Bills Track Lawyer Exes Collectors

Author:George Strait

“With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.”

Book Lawyer Crooks Leper Scott Fitzgerald

Author:Bob Dylan

“Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.”

Science Death Three Strong Weak Agree Lawyer Priests Fees

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”

Men Government President Business Enemy Worst Lawyer Ignorant Educated Voters Railroads Worst Enemy Prominent Business Man

Book:Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader

Source: Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader

“Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.”

Hard Use Easy Entrepreneur Simplicity Lawyer Complexity Programming Programmers Charging

Author:Chris Sacca

“Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.”

Family Dad Gun Lawyer

Author:Warren Zevon

“Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.”

Politics Lawyer Boat

Author:Robert Cray

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

Interesting Business Lawyer Finance Accounting Accountants

Author:Alex James

“Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.”

Sometimes Film Generations Clothes Lawyer Farmers Carpenter

Author:Danny Huston

“As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.”

Ifs Thinking Different Play Character Actors Fun Type Doctors Lawyer Over It Sci Fi

Author:Tricia Helfer

“The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.”

Cases Cost Taxes Add Lawyer Injury Employee Greedy Torts

Author:Dennis Hastert

“There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.”

Littles Ends Share Limits Victim Lawyer Lions Clients Attorney Scrap Settlement

Author:Dennis Hastert

“I'm a hard headed lawyer.”

Hard Lawyer

Author:Eric Holder

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