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.
Court Quotes
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
A child also cannot be made a witness in a court of law, nor a woman… nor a cheat. . . These persons might give false evidence. A child would speak falsely from ignorance, a woman from want of veracity, an impostor from habitual depravity.
There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
Pat Robertson launched a prayer offensive calling for God to make Supreme Court judges he doesn’t like step down. He mentions one is eighty-three, one has cancer, one a heart condition. That isn’t a prayer offensive. That’s an offensive prayer.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
You never really know a woman until you meet her in court.
This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man’s acquaintance, which […]
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.
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
