Case Quotes

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive. (Antisthenes)
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. View quote
Woody Allen
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. View quote
Groucho Marx
The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. View quote
Colin Powell
A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. View quote
Ronald Reagan
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. View quote
Graham Greene
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question? View quote
Gertrude Stein
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. (W. C. Fields)
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. View quote
W. C. Fields
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite! View quote
Paul Dirac
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. View quote
John Stuart Mill
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. View quote
Arthur Miller
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. View quote
Voltaire
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons. View quote
Henri Michaux
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. View quote
Edmund Burke
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain. (Mae West)
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. View quote
Herodotus
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. View quote
Earl Warren
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)