“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.”

“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.”

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”

“Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.”

“In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

“They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.”

“Fangs are more pointed, and vampires use fangs to bite people on the neck.''Yech! Who'd want to do that?''Vampires would, that's who.''Wait a minute. I saw Mrs. Monroe bite Mr. Monroe on the neck o...”