Brevity Quote by Pliny the Younger Download Open image “In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.” — Pliny the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Cases Pleading Please Speech
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. — John Powell Copy Share Image
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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