Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred....
It's called flowers wilt. It's called apples rot. It's called thieves get rich and saints get shot.
It's called God don't answer prayers a lot. Alright, now you know....
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newpapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
-- Brooks Atkinson, "December 11," _Once Around the Sun_ (1951)...
The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.
-- Edgar Watson Howe, _Country Town Sayings_(1911)...
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
-- William Gaddis, Write...
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
-- Dale Dauten, Newspaper columni...
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
-- Samuel Stiles, 19th Century English write...
We shake papers at each other the way primitive tribes shake spears.
-- John Jay Osborn, Jr., Author of The Associate...
Judges are, in many respects, like parents. You have to give them a good enough reason to do what you want.
-- Darlene Ricker, Lawyer and journali...

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