Louis Nizer Quotes

• 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, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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

  Louis Nizer

  Odds, Stubborn, Faces

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

  Louis Nizer

  Kids, Responsibility, Men

  My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

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• 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

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• 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

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Educational, Reality

  Louis Nizer (2015). “My Life in Court”, p.254, Ravenio Books

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

  Louis Nizer

  Accumulation, Ability

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

  Louis Nizer

  Positive, Insightful, Spirituality

  Louis Nizer (1978). “Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

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• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Louis Nizer

  Clever, Comeback, Insult

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

  Louis Nizer

  Beautiful, Art, Old Lady

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• 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

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

  Louis Nizer

  Men, Imagination, Vision

  Louis Nizer (1978). “Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind”, Doubleday Books

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

  Louis Nizer

  Oil, Doe, Boring

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• 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

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

  Louis Nizer

  Funny, Humorous, Fishing

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

  Louis Nizer

  Art, Renewal, Fine

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

  Louis Nizer

  Believe, People, Murphys Law

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• A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

  Louis Nizer

  Life, Father, Thousand

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

  Louis Nizer

  Reality, Differences, Indifference

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• 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

  Reading, Book, Hands

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

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Law, Library

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• 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

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1984

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