lawyers

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

— H. L. Mencken

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

— Robert Frost

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

— Samuel Butler

All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

— Richard Lamm

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

— Barten Holyday

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

— Finley Peter Dunne

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

— W. S. Gilbert

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

— Laurence H. Tribe

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

— Ron Brackin

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomew Chastened earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomew Chastened argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.

— Karen Joy Fowler