Anton Chekhov Quotes

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

My father was a lawyer.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Of Lawyers and Physicians I shall say nothing, because this Countrey is very Peaceable and Healthy; long may it so continue and never have occasion for the Tongue of the one, nor the Pen of the other, both equally destructive to Mens Estates and Lives

One lawyer will make work for another.

The difference between doctors and lawyers is that doctors try and solve problems and not just argue about them.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

My father was an attorney.

I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that was my dream.

Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

I'm very happy being attorney general.

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.

Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.

Tort reform is a complicated subject and not a panacea.