Quotes
Quotes about Court
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay (1777-1852).
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. -Justice Learned Hand.
Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except in the consciousness of doing your best. -Bernard M. Baruch.
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.
Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury systemâthat is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court.
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
