“The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.”
“What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer.”
“A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.”
“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer”
“We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.”
“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.”