I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.
Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Bezos is responding to the objections over the Washington Post not endorsing a candidate for President.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.