Law Profession Quotes

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

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

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

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

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

When I was a little girl growing up in Elmira, I always wanted to be a lawyer.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

[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 ...

Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

A lawyer who is not a social engineer, is a social parasite.

I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

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