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#1. The man in front of you today is a mortician, The patient died on the operating table. If you think the patient should have lived, ask the surgeons. #2. I am here to jumpstart your mind from lethargy. #3. I believe you are familiar with carnal knowledge? The concept that is, not the practical part. Someone with experience? Legal experience you dirty minded fools! #4. The only difference between you and a cow is what I teach you. #5. Most women would prefer the sperm of a law professor to that of a law student. #6. We are not authorities in law. By ‘we’ I mean ‘you’. Some of you might be tempted to think that we are in the same category! #7. You call me Sir and I call you Sir. The only difference is that YOU will mean it while I don't! #8. Not even the devil knows what a man is thinking, leave alone a woman. #9. I agree with the Honourable Justice Kwach, that the legal profession is in danger of being infiltrated by peasants. #10. For the purposes of my lectures, all time will be in GMT and only my Swiss watch will apply. #11. If your female client is going to be convicted of murder, make sure she’s pregnant. Why are you laughing? Of course, I don’t mean that you should be the one making sure! #12. I radiate knowledge because I am in intellectual puberty and not intellectual menopause. – Githu Muigai	added by anonymous 7 years ago
Tough as nails, maybe a little like Patton in World War 2, but an honourable guy, he pushed us really hard, but I learned a lot from him. We all did. – Tom Scott	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them. – Plato	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates. – Cervantes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men. – William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 38 of a paragraph. – Søren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken. – Danish proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused. – Latin Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
That cannot be safe which is not honourable. – Cornelius Tacitus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

#1. The man in front of you today is a mortician, The patient died on the operating table. If you think the patient should have lived, ask the surgeons. #2. I am here to jumpstart your mind from lethargy. #3. I believe you are familiar with carnal knowledge? The concept that is, not the practical part. Someone with experience? Legal experience you dirty minded fools! #4. The only difference between you and a cow is what I teach you. #5. Most women would prefer the sperm of a law professor to that of a law student. #6. We are not authorities in law. By ‘we’ I mean ‘you’. Some of you might be tempted to think that we are in the same category! #7. You call me Sir and I call you Sir. The only difference is that YOU will mean it while I don't! #8. Not even the devil knows what a man is thinking, leave alone a woman. #9. I agree with the Honourable Justice Kwach, that the legal profession is in danger of being infiltrated by peasants. #10. For the purposes of my lectures, all time will be in GMT and only my Swiss watch will apply. #11. If your female client is going to be convicted of murder, make sure she’s pregnant. Why are you laughing? Of course, I don’t mean that you should be the one making sure! #12. I radiate knowledge because I am in intellectual puberty and not intellectual menopause.

– Githu Muigai

added by anonymous
7 years ago

Tough as nails, maybe a little like Patton in World War 2, but an honourable guy, he pushed us really hard, but I learned a lot from him. We all did.

– Tom Scott

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

– Plato

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

– Cervantes

added by anonymous
12 years ago

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

– William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.

– Sir Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 38 of a paragraph.

– Søren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.

– William Shakespeare