The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structu...
I take it, the lawyer remarked musingly, patience isn't one of your virtues.I didn't know, she said, that patience WAS a virtue.
A nurse, I said, would be wearing a starched uniform, and she’d have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient’s mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence.
A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up...
Did you ever hear of a politician who wasn’t elected on a platform of economy in office? That isn’t it, I said. Oh yes it is, lover. I can remember way back. Even then all politicians were promising e...
The best fighters don’t worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.