William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Dissenting, DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 342 (1974)
Judicial opinions
“Weary lawyers with endless tongues.”
Maud Muller (1856)
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William H. Rehnquist (1924–2005) Chief Justice of the United States
1997 speech at University of Virginia Law School, as quoted in Marc Galanter, Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture (2006), p. 3.
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“Helmsley would lick the dog, tongue to tongue. It was unhealthy, unnatural.”
Leona Helmsley (1920–2007) American hotel owner
Zamfira Sfara, former housekeeper, in August 30, 2007, Daily News, about Leona Helmsley's relationship with her dog Trouble, which received the largest inheritance of Helmsley's heirs, $12 million
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 18, “A Net of Stars” (p. 262).
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online <br class="br">Attacking David Cameron, during his Labour Party Conference speech on 26 September 2006. <br class="br">2000s
“Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.”
Charles Stross book Accelerando
Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 5 (“Router”), p. 188
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) Greek politician
[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 61
“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona