"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote