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You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! – Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino's character) movie: "And Justice for All" (1979)

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C.S. Lewis- as quoted by Lt. Gov. Steve Pence

" the life of the law is not in logic, but rather in experience” 'The Common Law' by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

New York Islanders coach Ted Nolan, waxing philosophic in a Yogi Berra type comment, after a recent 2-1 victory: “My philosophy has always been if we score one more than them, we have a good chance of winning.”

“A prosecutor neither is, nor should consider himself to be, an advocate before he has probable cause to have anyone arrested.” Buckley v. Fitzsimmons, 509 U.S. ----, 113 S.Ct. 2606, 125 L.Ed.2d 209 (1993) U.S. Sup. Ct. cited in McCollum v. Garrett, 880 S.W.2d 530 (Ky., 1994)

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals, we know now that it is bad economics.” FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Cincinnati Whistleblower: “If you can't improve on the news, you shouldn't even be reporting it.”

Judge Thomas Wingate-Franklin Circuit Court: “…rules of statutory construction . . . are like Hallmark© cards—there's one for every occasion.”

Chief Justice John Palmore: “[w]hen all else is said and done, common sense must not be a stranger in the house of the law.” Cantrell v. Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission, 450 S.W.2d 235, 237 (Ky. 1970).

MR. NOBODY POEM WHERE TO PLACE THE BLAME! Great for Plaintiff's closing argument

Last week, I stated a certain woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
-- Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
-- George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
-- Victor Borge

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher..
-- Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
-- Jimmy Durante

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
-- Alex Levine

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
-- Rodney Dangerfield

Money can't buy you happiness . but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
-- Spike Milligan

I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
-- Mark Twain

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.
-- Joe Namath

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
-- Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
-- W.C.. Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress..
-- Will Rogers

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. . . as you grow older, it will avoid you.
-- Winston Churchill

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ...
but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
-- Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
-- Billy Crystal

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out

“ I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway

"The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control
immigration." -unknown-

“..it is possible to win the legal battle while still being destroyed by the process.” Old saying

"Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in
life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." Booker T. Washington

Atticus Finch in to Kill A Mocking Bird: “A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

Titorelli, the painter, tells Josef K., the victim, in Kafka’s The Trial, “Everything belongs to the court.” When the court and its processes are flawed, so is justice itself.

Ben Hogan: “Life comes down to ten two letter words: If it is to be, it is up to me.”

Definition: “Autoshadowphobia - fear of one's own shadow.” – Mark Nickolas in RockyMountainReport.com

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis (sent in by Hon.. Wm. Adkins of Williamstown)

The very nature of a trial is a search for truth.” Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 166, 106 S.Ct. 988, 994, 89 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986)

Decades ago the psychologist Erik Erikson conceived of middle age as a stage of life defined by tension between stagnation and generativity — a healthy sense of guiding and nourishing the next generation, of helping the community.

Don't ever argue with an idiot.... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ~ anonymous

“The internet is more powerful than the Glock.” Judge Steve Horner

“Tough girls come from New York, Sweet girls, they’re from Georgia, But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood.” Ashley Judd

In the interest of judicial economy, courts must avoid “opening the door to ‘litigation in the field of trivialities and mere bad manners.’” Kroger, 920 S.W.2d at 65 (quoting Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts, 56 (5th Ed., Lawyer’s Ed., 1984)

HAM AND EGGS - A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a
pig.
Anonymous

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Edgar Bergen

Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who
knows what is going on - This person must be fired.
Anonymous

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest
people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I
can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many
people a company can operate without.
Anonymous

I am a friend of the workingman, I would rather be his friend than be one.
Clarence Darrow

The world is divided into people who do things--and people who get the
credit.
Dwight Morrow

The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as
the deadline approaches.
Bove's Theorem

If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire,
the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Cannon's Law

No project was ever completed on time and within budget.
Cheops Law

People are always available for work in the past tense.
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labour

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have
kept it all to themselves.
Lane Kirkland

We're not Prince Charles and Princess Di. We don't think of ourselves as
royalty. We happen to be working people.
Christie Brinkley

In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on
a horse. - Archie Bunker
Carroll O'Connor

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde quotes

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. - Lao Tzu

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome Kern

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very
hard and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell

A bum asked me "Give me $10 till payday." I asked "When's payday?" He
said "I don't know, you're the one who is working!"
Henny Youngman

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work
he's out of.
Henny Youngman ***

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle
in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real
job - I mean, since she's been grown up.
Teresa Heinz Kerry

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.
Martha Raye

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
(Charlie McCarthy)

So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he
said 'You've been promoted.' And I swerved. And then he rang up a second

Great Football quotes:

'At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.'
Erik Russell / Georgia Southern.

'Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas.'
Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.

'After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.'
Bobby Bowden / Florida State

'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.'
Lou Holtz / Arkansas

'When you win, nothing hurts.'
Joe Namath / Alabama

'Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.'
Lou Holtz / Arkansas

'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!'
Bear Bryant / Alabama

'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.'
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.'
Woody Hayes / Ohio State

'I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.'
Bob Devaney / Nebraska

'In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.'
Wally Butts / Georgia

'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.'
Paul Dietzel / LSU

'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.'
Bear Bryant / Alabama

When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.
'No, but you can see it from here.'
Lou Holtz / Arkansas...

'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.'
Bear Bryant / Alabama

'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.'
Matty Bell / SMU

'Lads,you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.'
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

'I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms -
Truman's and Eisenhower's.'
Alex Karras / Iowa

'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.'
Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.'
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

'Always remember ..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.'
Shug Jordan / Auburn

'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.'
Darrell Royal / Texas

'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.'
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

'They whipped us like a tied up goat.'
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

'I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'
Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.'
Bobby Bowden / Florida State

'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.'
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: 'All those who need showers, take them.'
John McKay / USC

'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.'
Murray Warmath / Minnesota

'The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.
To be a back, you only have to be dumb.'
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.'
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.'
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.'
Darrell Royal / Texas

'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.'
Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School

'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad .'
Darrell Royal / University of Texas

'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.'
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football'
John Heisman

time and said "You've been promoted again.' And I swerved again. He rang
up a third time and said 'You're managing director.' And I went into a
tree. And a policeman came up and said 'What happened to you?' And I
said 'I careered off the road.
Tim Vine

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
John Ciardi

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why
so few engage in it. - Henry Ford

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Charles Lamb

The harder I work the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwyn

Friedrich Von Schiller: The history of the world is the world's court of justice

Goethe: Patriotism ruins history.

Sir Walter Scott: A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Reinhold Niebuhr: A too confident sense ofjustice always leads to injustice.

Deitzman v. Mullin, 108 Ky. 610 (Ky. App., 1900)

It is the boast of the common law that there is no right without a remedy.

Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist: March 19, 2007-

“…people whose ideology says that government is always the problem, never the solution, see no point in governing well.

So they use political power to reward their friends, rather than find people who will actually do their jobs. If expertise is irrelevant, who gets the jobs? No problem: the interlocking lavishly financed institutions of movement conservatism, which range from K street to Fox News, create a vast class of apparatchiks who can be counted on to be “Loyal Bushies”:.

SNOW:

Observer Neil Laruan in a Jan. 16 blog.:

“I love the excitement of a snowstorm; the anticipation of world soon transformed to cushioned white,:

“ I love the dampened sound in a forest when it snows, the slow hiss of steady snow piling up, the smell in the air the hour before the snow starts, the leaden grey of the nimbostratus, All of it, I love it, I live for it.”

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