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Quotes by Louis Nizer - (20 quotes)

Louis Nizer - From the Beauty category:

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Belief category:

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Belief category:

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Books category:

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)

Louis Nizer - From the Books category:

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)

Louis Nizer - From the Boredom category:

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Contrasts category:

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Criticism category:

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

Louis Nizer - From the Criticism category:

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Determination category:

I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Education category:

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Health category:

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Imagination category:

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Preparation category:

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)

Louis Nizer - From the Religion category:

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Religion category:

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)

Louis Nizer - From the Renewal category:

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Searching category:

You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. (Louis Nizer)

Louis Nizer - From the Winning category:

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)

Louis Nizer - From the Work category:

-Between You and Me, 1948...
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)