C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Lawyers
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
The plainest case in many words entangling.
Here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.
As adversaries in law, strive mightily; but eat and drink as friends.
Our wrangling lawyers***are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients’ causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
As to lawyers,—their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defence of right and wrong.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
An eminent lawyer cannot be a dishonest man. Tell me a man is dishonest, and I will answer he is no lawyer. He cannot be, because he is careless and reckless of justice; the law is not in his heart, is not the standard and rule of his conduct.