Louis Nizer Quotes

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

Louis Nizer

#2. 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.

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

#4. They who have nothing to trouble them,
will be troubled at nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

#7. When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

David Levithan

#8. A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Louis Nizer

#9. 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.

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

#12. Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Louis Nizer

#14. Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

PJ Harvey

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

#17. 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.

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

#22. Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Daphne Du Maurier

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer

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

Louis Nizer