Louis Nizer

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing…

— Louis Nizer

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You…

— Louis Nizer

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

— Louis Nizer

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

— Louis Nizer

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

— Louis Nizer

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still…

— Louis Nizer

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

— Louis Nizer

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

— Louis Nizer

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

— Louis Nizer

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum…

— Louis Nizer

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a…

— Louis Nizer

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

— Louis Nizer

“A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a…

— Louis Nizer

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

— Louis Nizer

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a…

— Louis Nizer

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

— Louis Nizer

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

— Louis Nizer

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

— Louis Nizer

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the…

— Louis Nizer

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

— Louis Nizer