| "When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president." »Dick Houser |
| "The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "A good friend is my nearest relation." »Thomas Fuller |
| "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Ther's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude. (after his client signed an 80 million contract with Virgin Records)" »Don Passmani |
| "The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown." »Albert Einstein |
| "Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." »George Herbert |
| "If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging." »Joe Martin |
| "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." »Robert Frost |
| "Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard |
| "Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher |
| "It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." »Jacob Bigelow |
| "I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table." »Jean Kerr |
| "He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau |
| "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off." »Bill Veeck |
| "It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else." »Leonard Bernstein |
| "Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client." »William Seward Burroughs |
| "What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500." »Benjamin H. Brewster |
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