Dick Cavett Quotes

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

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.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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.

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

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

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

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.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

The legal profession is overrun with money-makers, who regard it only as a business by which money is made, with little or no thought of the quality of the means used. We greatly need many more lawyers who regard the profession as a ministry in the temple of Justice.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

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

One lawyer will make work for another.

Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I have to really work hard at my craft.

When someone is working hard on something, that always connects with people, no matter what the differences in generations are.