#d

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#centuries #constitutional #counsel #court #discover

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#advice #bit #bite #chickens #cross

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#life #life is a #lived #saturday #through

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#flown #folks #half #happening #i

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#laugh #laughs #sleep #snore #world

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#bath #being #clean #day #menace

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#comes #furnish #helps #leisure #listen

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#rare #readers #thinkers

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#asserting #conscious mind #habit #itself #mind