Lawyers

From BillionQuotes

• LAWYER: A professional advocate hired to bend the law on behalf of a paying client; for this reason considered the most suitable background for entry into politics.
  • Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary

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

• Dick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
  Cade: Nay, that I mean to do.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry the Sixth, Part II

• He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
  • Proverb

• When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty.
• When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
• When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.
  • Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese-American writer, translator, and editor.

• A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
  • Deborah L. Rhode, In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession, Oxford US

• Lawyers are like nuclear missiles: I have mine, you have yours, and when we use them we fuck everything up.
  • Other People's Money

• Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers?
  • Dan Quayle