“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
~ Charles Dickens
“A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief.”
~ Franz Kafka
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
~ Robert Frost
“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”
~ H.L. Mencken
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
~ Louis D. Brandeis
“People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made.”
~ Otto Bismark
“We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.”
~ Will Rogers
“In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”
~ Homer Simpson
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
“It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.”
~ Mae West
“Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.”
~ Samuel Johnson
“The doctrine of bespeaks caution provides no protection to someone who warns his hiking companion to walk slowly because there might be a ditch ahead when he knows with near certainty that the Grand Canyon lies one foot away.”
~ In re Prudential Secs. Inc. P’ships Litig., 930 F. Supp. 68, 72 (S>D>N>Y> 1996)
