The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (313 page)

One LAW for the rich and another for the poor

1830
King's Own
I. xi.
Is there nothing smuggled besides gin? Now, if the husbands and fathers of these ladies,—those who have themselves enacted the laws,—wink at their
infringement
, why should not others do so? .. There cannot be one law for the rich and another for the poor.
1913
Spectator
8 Nov. 757
The idea prevails abroad that there is one law for the ‘rich’ Englishman and another for the ‘poor’ foreigner.
1944
Headmistress
iv.
‘You want one law for the people you think are rich and another law for the people you think are poor,’ I said. ‘Let me advise you to find out which are which before you make a fool of yourself’.
1979
Guardian
10 Oct. 10
The strong sense that there was one law for the rich and another for the poor [at the trial].

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A man who is his own LAWYER has a fool for his client

1809
Port Folio
(Philadelphia) Aug. 132
He who is always his own counseller will often have a fool for his client.
1850
Autobiography
II. xi.
The proprietor of the
Morning Chronicle
pleaded his own cause, an occasion in which a man is said to have ‘a fool for his client’.
1911
British Weekly
21 Dec. 386
There is a popular impression, for which there is a good deal to be said, that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
1975
Snow Tiger
xiii.
You must have heard the saying that the man who argues his own case has a fool for a lawyer.
1991
Washington Times
22 May A3
The lawyer who acts as his own attorney has a fool for a client, they say, but this hasn't stopped the American Bar Association.
1996
Washington Post
6 Aug. D3
[B]y collecting his piece of a fat legal fee, Hagen disproves the adage that any lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.

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