Craig Ferguson Quotes

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they work, and I know some of them who are so unhappy with it.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

We ought to have a bill ... to close the law schools. Think of the public service we could do. We could take away their [lawyers] licenses to steal.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

[Discussing the American colonies] In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science ...

By God, we’ve got to get rid of the lawyers.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a 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.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.