Trial Court Proceedings

Famous quotes containing the words trial, court and/or proceedings:

    “A man who has no office to go to—I don’t care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “And no one, it seemed, had had the presence of mind
    To initiate proceedings or stop the wheel
    From the number it was backing away from as it stopped:
    It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)