Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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About Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long...

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it has never seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so, beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

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The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. I've gotten back at lawyers, prosecutors, judges, law professors, and politicians. I just line 'em up and shoot 'em.

—John Grisham

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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

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