The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Letter to Pichon, reported inMarshall Brown,Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Reported inMarshall Brown,Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude,The Complete Art of Public Speaking (1970), p. 84.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
Reported inBurton Stevenson,Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948).
Last words; Burr was an atheist. His last words were a response to the efforts of his friend, Reverend P.J. Van Pelt, to get Burr to state that there was a God. Reported in Holmes Moss Alexander,Aaron Burr: The Proud Pretender (1937), p. 356.
The filibuster isn't mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. Instead, it came into being by happenstance: In 1805, Vice President Aaron Burr urged the Senate to eliminate the "motion to proceed"-a standard parliamentary provision that allows a simple majority of any legislature to end debate on a piece of business and call for a vote. (Burr, who seems never to have developed the habit of thinking things through, reportedly considered the rule a waste of time.)
