I say, break the law.
The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.
I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.
Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it. " I will tell you this. No - in fact, watching shows, they're reading the papers. Almost every lawyer says, you don't release your returns until the audit's complete.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.