...universal habit of resorting to it, where the means of payment exist; and also by such proverbs as, " He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client."* * Men obey willingly a person whom they consider wiser than themselves. For example, the sick are anxious...

...sceleratos, non scelera.'(K) ' Imperitise signum est, quod difficillimmn est, exigere cito fieri.(n) ' He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.' ' Better late than never.' ' Mai delibera chi troppo teme.' ' Seditio civium hostium est occasio.'(6')...

...is another auxiliary, one in the hands of the lawyers themselves, but it has passed into a proverb, that he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. It ie truly surprising the amount of indifference the profession as a body show by their eupinexteae...

...in it, the character of the accused is his best defense from the aspersion. There is an old motto, He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. It is of wide application. He who is smarting under an unjust accusation is by that very fact unfitted...

...perhaps no writer in the English language who possesses in a more eminent degree the power of stating abstruse scientific truths in such a manner as to...occurrence in every household when the mother must be a quasiphysician for the time that necessarily intervenes between the unexpected accident, or the sudden...

...lawyers, that a woman cannot successfully conduct a lawsuit, and of disproving that time-honored maxim, that "he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client." The bill before the legislature entitled "An act defining the duties of receivers, of insolvent insurance...

...triumphantly his own cause before the House of Lords, thereby practically refuting the trite paradox that he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. Assuredly his sledge-hammer letters on the Penge case, which loosened the prison bars and relaxed the...

...altogether unprofitably spent by him. He had, for one thing, put himself to school. It is said that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client ; and I have been told that when a doctor is seriously ill, he generally consults a brother Galen — whether...

...But the popular judgment upon the wisdom of such a man is crystallized in the old proverb, '' A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client; " and the State, solicitous for its own welfare as well as for the individual welfare, has partially protected...

...own doctor. The lawyers have invented a saying to meet this attempt in their own case — " Every man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client ; " and can give no end of modern instances in confirmation of the truth of this wise saw. Medical men paraphrase...