Funny Quotes about Judges and Juries
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
— Lewis Carroll
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
— Norm Crosby
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
— Mark Twain
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
— H. L. Mencken
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
— Robert Frost
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
— Publilius Syrus
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.
— Mark Twain
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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