Louis Nizer famous quotes

03-26-2025

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
-- Louis Nizer

#Odds #Stubborn #Faces
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
-- Louis Nizer

#Positive #Creeds #True Religion
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
-- Louis Nizer

#Responsibility #Kids #Men
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
-- Louis Nizer

#Educational #Men #Comfort
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 man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
-- Louis Nizer

#Inspirational #Heart #Men
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
-- Louis Nizer

#Beautiful #Art #Old Lady
A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
-- Louis Nizer

#Men #Imagination #Vision
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
-- Louis Nizer

#Clever #Insult #Thousand
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

#Winning #Justice #Causes
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 individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
-- Louis Nizer

#Skills #Differences #People
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

#Morning #Book #Golf
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

#Expression #Preparation #Trials
A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
-- Louis Nizer

#Life #Father #Thousand
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
-- Louis Nizer

#Fishing #Law #Water
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
-- Louis Nizer

#Art #Renewal #Fine
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.
-- Louis Nizer

#Morning #Law #Library
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

#Atheist #Believe #Giving
A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
-- Louis Nizer

#Oil #Doe #Boring
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 lesson as often as we please.
-- Louis Nizer

#Book #Hands #Lessons
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
-- Louis Nizer

#Believe #People
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

#Education #Morning #Law
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
-- Louis Nizer

#Reality #Differences #Indifference

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