29 Quotes by Louis Nizer

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

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.

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.