No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings. –William Blake
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. –George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA
The computer is only a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man. –American Library Association, 1964
“The doctrine of the law then is this: that precedents and rules must be followed, unless flatly absurd or unjust; for though their reason be not obvious at first view, yet we owe such a deference to former times as not to suppose such a deference to former times as not to suppose they acted wholly without consideration.” --Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries Volume I, Section III Page No. 7
Discourage litigation, persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can . . . as a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man . . . there will be business enough. –Abraham Lincoln, Notes from Law Lectures, 1st July, 1850
Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. –Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
One person’s reality may be another’s fantasy. –Ed Matlack
In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. –Abraham Lincoln
The legal system is often a mystery, and we its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. –Henry Miller, American author and writer 1891-1980
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. –Ezra Pound, 1885-1972, American poet, critic
Documents create a paper reality we call proof. –Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. –Desmond Morris, British anthropologist, 1928
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. –Robert Half, American businessman, founder of Robert Half & Associates
. . . life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. –Judge Learned Hand, On Receiving an Honorary Degree (1939)
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. –Mark Twain
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. –Earl Warren
[i]t is the function of a judge not to make, but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. –Sir Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England 44-45 (Univ. of Chicago, ed. 1971)
One pictures is worth ten thousand words –Chinese proverb; also attributed to Fred R. Barnard in Printers’ Ink December 8, 1921
That it should come to this! --William Shakespeare Hamlet (Act I, Scene II)
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