#lawyer

Lovers are like lawyers: each manipulates the evidence as much as possible to outwit their opponent in the eyes of all. When the woman or defense attorney gets the upper hand, the result is dismissal. ↗

— Bauvard

#lawyers #love #funny

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#humor #lawyers #men #humor

During the years of struggling to make partner, he had sometimes entertained the comical notion that making partner would imbue him with new powers, like a budding superhero who had been bitten by a radioactive spider. It appeared that any superpowers he had gained did not include the ability to pick up women in bars. ↗

— Reece Hirsch

#lawyer #superhero #superpower #humor

Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains. ↗

— Jane Gardam

#imagination

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#first #incompetent #lawyers #refuge

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#decided #divorce #how #i #i love

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#juries #lawyers #only #real #trial

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#going #graduated #i #lawyer #military

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#attitude #basically #been #course #failed

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine. ↗

— Zach Braff

#dad #form #i #know #lawyer