WEB GRAFFITI ZINE
Quotations & Proverbs 2 Issue
A good denial, the best point in law.
Proverbs II
-- Irish Proverb
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
-- Cicero
What every lawyer knows:
"When the facts are against you, argue the law.
When the law's against you, argue the facts.
And when the facts and the law are against you, abuse the opposing counsel."
A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.
-- Chinese ProverbThere are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.
One of these is roots, the other, wings.
-- Hodding Carter
The best advice is found on the pillow.
-- Danish ProverbAdvice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who would go a hundred miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.
-- Japanese ProverbBy perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Good luck beats early rising.
-- Irish ProverbDepend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
-- R.E. Shay
Anger without power is folly.
-- German ProverbMy life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.
-- Joseph Hunter
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
-- Chinese ProverbBehold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
-- James Bryant Conant
He who leaps high must take a long run.
-- Danish ProverbAmbition can creep as well as soar.
-- Edmund Burke
Who goes for a day in the forest should take bread for a week.
-- Czech ProverbPlanning your future saves you from regretting your past.
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.
-- Irish ProverbA man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
-- Walter Lippmann
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
-- Danish ProverbLawyers spend a great deal of time shoveling smoke.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
-- German ProverbYou have to be careful about being too careful.
-- Beryl Pfizer
Blessings do not come in pairs; misfortunes never
come singly.
-- Chinese ProverbReflect on your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens
A little help is better than a lot of pity.
-- Celtic ProverbHelp yourself and heaven will help you.
-- Jean de La Fontaine
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
-- Japanese ProverbAn age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James A. Michener; "Space"
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
-- Yiddish ProverbIt's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
-- Noel Coward
Dress a goat in silk and it's still a goat.
-- Celtic ProverbHe is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is difficult if you're used to it.
-- Indonesian ProverbHabits are like supervisors that you don't notice.
-- Hannes Messemer
To work is to pray.
-- Latin ProverbWhen love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-- John Ruskin
In bad things be slow; in good things be quick.
-- Afghan ProverbNothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.
-- French ProverbMy sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
The road to the head lies through the heart.
-- American ProverbThe head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
Men are like bagpipes: no sound comes from them till they're full.
-- Irish ProverbThere is no love sincerer than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Hell is not so bad as the road that leads to it.
-- Yiddish ProverbThe road to hell is always in good repair because its users pay so dearly for its upkeep.
Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
-- English ProverbIt takes just three times as long to tell a lie, on any subject, as it does to tell the truth.
-- Josh Billings
He who lives by hope will die by hunger.
-- Italian ProverbHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Francis Bacon
The luck of an ignoramus is this: He doesn't know that he doesn't know.
-- Yiddish ProverbNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
-- Georg Lichtenberg
Extreme law, extreme injustice.
-- Latin ProverbTemper justice with mercy.
-- John Milton
You can shear a sheep many times but you can skin him only once.
-- Vermont ProverbDon't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
-- Aesop
Blind belief is dangerous.
-- Western Kenyan ProverbTo believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.
-- Stanislaus I
Death cannot kill what never dies.
-- American ProverbI want to go on living even after my death!
-- Anne Frank
A clear conscience sleeps during thunder.
-- Jamaican ProverbA clear conscience makes a soft pillow.
-- Roadside Church Sign
"Propaganda…must always be essentially simple and repetitious. In the long run, only he will achieve basic results in influencing public opinion who is able to reduce problems to the simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals."
Joseph Goebbels’ diary, 29/01/42"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Hermann Goering"All through these long years we have never had any other prayer than this: Lord, give our people internal peace and give and maintain peace abroad. We have experienced in our generation so much
fighting that it is natural that we should long for peace. "
- Adolf Hitler, Nuremburg Rally of 1936"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999