Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser in fees expenses and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers?
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
In university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
QUIVER n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.
America is a paradise of lawyers.
Johnson observed that he ?did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back but he believed the gentleman was an attorney?.
Lawyers I suppose were children once.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser in fees expenses and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.