Case Quotes

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields

Best, Another, Bartender

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

Keep, Snake, Handy

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams

Nation, Necessity, Tyrant

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
Luke Scott

Country, Gun, Point

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill

Evil, Person, May

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

Keep, Snake, Bottle

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Power, Ignorance, Enemy

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner

Government, Another, Whether

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mother, Drunk, Saying

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

Long, Thought, Dead

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

Down, Until, Progress

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige

Age, Mind, Matter

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush Limbaugh

Government, Why, Second

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell

Best, Thinking, Words

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus

Wife, Lost, Child

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
William Shatner

Eyes, Big, Rest

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

Time, Pain, Passion

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen

Law, Learned, College

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

God, Devil, Books

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
Martha Beck

Coffee, Almost, Unless

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot

Woman, Enough, Common

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian

Confidence, May, Difficult

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
Dave Barry

Car, Nothing, Dogs

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris

Change, Long, Keep

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson

Equality, Happy, Rather

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny

Age, Mind, Matter

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison

War, Question, Whether

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Good, Person, Win

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert

Mean, Everything, Country

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant

Sure, Needs, Thinks

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