"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)