Louis Nizer Quotes

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

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

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#3. I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

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

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

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#6. Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

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#7. A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

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#8. Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

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

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#10. Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

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

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#12. The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

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

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

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#15. Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

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#16. A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

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

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#18. We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

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

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#20. 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 the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

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