Quotes by Louis Nizer

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

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

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

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

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

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

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