A client is fain to hire a lawyer to keep from the injury of other lawyersöas Christians that travel inTurkeyare forced to hire Janissaries, to protect them from the insolencies of otherTurks.

-Butler, Samuel
  Prose Observations.

It's got to be clear, back in your own mind, that serving the client is onething and theart of architectureanother.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

-Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford
  Clinging to the Wreckage, ch.7.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because, when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

-Sterling, Rod
  'TheTrend-SettingTraditionalism of Architecture', in the NewYorkTimes,13 Jan.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for the blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.