Nizer, Louis (Louis Nizer)

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

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
-- Louis Nizer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
-- Louis Nizer

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

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
-- Louis Nizer

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