If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. (Francis Bacon)

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
(Lenny Bruce)

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
(Anton Chekhov)

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

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
(Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995)

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
(Charles Lamb)

Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
(Jane Bryant Quinn)

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
(Calvin Trillin)