Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

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.

This sect of men [the Turkish Ulema] are equally capable of preferments in the Law or the Church, these two sciences being cast into one, a Lawyer and a Priest being the same word …. ‘Tis they that are the real Authors

A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir, A Whore your Health and Pence, Sir, Your Daughter rob your Chest, Sir, Your Wife may steal your Rest, Sir. A Thief your Goods and Plate. But this is all but picking, With Rest, Pence, Chest and Chicken; It ever was decreed, Sir, If Lawyer's Hand is free'd, Sir, He steals your whole Estate. The Lawyers are bitter Enemies to those in our Way [thieves]. They don't care that any body should get a clandestine Livelihood but themselves.

One lawyer will make work for another.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Now all the bums is wondering where I be's at -if you ain't a barbie it's none of your freaking beeswax!!!

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.