Economics Quote by Calvin Trillin

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all…

— Paul Laffoley

“I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said I was…

— Alan Dershowitz

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

— Felix Frankfurter

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve…

— Charley Reese

“The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”

— Joseph Hansen

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

— Baron de Montesquieu

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

— Doris Lessing

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

— Randall Kennedy

“I don’t argue with fools; I educate.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely