Louis Nizer Quotes

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• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
• Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
• Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the…
• 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 find me in…
• Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
• Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their…
• A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
• The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
• Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.
• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
• In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
• A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
• Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation…
• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
• I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a…
• A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
• True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
• A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

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