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

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

- Louis Nizer

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. T…

- Louis Nizer

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

- Louis Nizer

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

- Louis Nizer

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

- Louis Nizer

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

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

- Louis Nizer

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

- Louis Nizer