Quotes by Lawyers - Page 10

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
No one is the worse for knowing two languages.
Oliver Mowat
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Cicero
A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Rufus Choate
Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Animals feed man eats die man of intellect alone knows how to eat.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas E. Dewey
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.
Charles J. Ingersoll
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
Daniel Webster
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
William Allen
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
Thomas R. Marshall
Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
Abraham Lincoln
When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Cicero
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Cicero
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
Owen D. Young
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Cicero
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
Abraham Lincoln
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Kossuth
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.
Pliny the Younger
I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.
John Adams
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
Abraham Lincoln
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
Mahatma Gandhi
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?
Bernhard Schlink
Nothing, nothing, the whole long day, nothing.
Franz Kafka
Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.
Hilary Clinton
I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.
Bella Abzug
Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction
Kenneth Eade
Politicians are crooks!
Kenneth Eade
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
Kenneth Eade
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.
Kenneth Eade
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?
Franz Kafka
What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children -- oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.
Benjamin Harrison
His [Luke]letter went something like this: "Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both."The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: "Never get between a boy and his dreams
Tim Russert
Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.
Franz Kafka
I was a good lawyer , and most days that was enough. I was aware, however, that I took refuge in my profession, as unlikely as that seemed considering the amount of human suffering I dealt with. It offered me a role to escape into, from what I no longer knew; perhaps nothing more significant than my own little ration of suffering.
Michael Nava
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
Max Ehrmann
That’s the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don’t have much of it for this, but it’s all I have in here.
Kenneth Eade