Top 1200 Court Jester Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Let's get this straight now: a Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law. It's a court of politics.

I've been lucky enough to always recognize to leave stuff on the court, on the court.

Life has changed both on and off the court after the Rio Olympics medal. I have a lot of confidence on the court now and feel anything is possible. I also feel that I have improved my game. Off the court, I do get recognised more now.

I can play full-court or half-court. It doesn't make any difference.

If I can be smart off the court, then I have to believe that will bleed onto the court.

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the court's own legitimacy and authority.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

You have to go out on the court and execute on both ends of the court.

If I could have played my whole career on one court it would have been the Centre Court at Wimbledon.

I am very proud of our Supreme Court - it is one of the best worldwide. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, we have seen a certain imbalance in the relationship between the judiciary, the parliament and the government. The Supreme Court behaved in an activist way. We have to debate the degree to which such Supreme Court activism is appropriate.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

Many fans give me too much love on court, off court as well.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Times changed a lot, off court and on court.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

On the court as well as off the court, I'm going to do everything that's right and try to lead by example.

The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

The House of Commons has the undoubted rights to expel members for misconduct. This is an absolute authority which cannot be challenged in any court, as it derives from the twin concept of the High Court of Parliament being the most senior court in the land and of each House's right to regulate its own affairs.

At issue here is a basic law which enables the Supreme Court to quash laws in extreme cases. Up until now, this right of the Supreme Court was not mentioned anywhere, but was just taken. At the same time, we want to enable the Knesset to overrule decisions of the Supreme Court.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

To have the right team is key at the beginning to build your career on the court and off the court.

The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.

Merrick Garland was the most qualified nominee, not just in our lifetimes but perhaps in the history of the United States Supreme Court. The chief judge of the D.C. Circuit for 20 years, the nation's second-highest court. Never once been overruled by the Court in his 20 years. He was extraordinary.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.

I'm going to come in and learn and be the best player I can be on the court as well as off the court.

What often happens in a court of law is that, if victims do get their day in court, they are on trial as much as the perpetrators.

When you do your job on the court, that gives you more of a trust off the court.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

At Court, every one for himselfe. [At court, everyone for himself.]

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

Any award the NBA gives you, whether it's on the court or off the court, it's definitely an honor.

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

I learned a long time ago, it's my job to help guys in any area, whether it's on the court, off the court.

The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear from those who might oppose Samuel Alito is that he'll bring the court back within a realm where the American people might want us to be with a Supreme Court; one that interprets the law, equal justice under the law, but not advancing without us advancing, the legislative body advancing, ahead of him.

The bonding off the court correlates a lot to on the court.

We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.

Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is continued to be cited today by the Supreme Court. Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the most liberal member of the court, in footnote one of opinion she wrote several years ago involving the Oneida Nation cites the Doctrine of Discovery. The court never questions it.

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

I was always happy off the court at Golden State. It was on the court that I was frustrated.

I try to show a little bit of excitement, only when I'm on the court, but off the court I'm just chill.

Coming from Flint, I was really immature on the court and off the court.

I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe.

I've always talked on-court and off-court. It's not something tough for me.

I know for me, when I'm on the court I'm totally different than when I'm off of the court.

I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.

When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court, and when I tried to make another faery love me, it was for that court. I’ve lived for my whole life trying to bring the Summer Court back to the strength it once was. In all of those years, in centuries , I’ve only wished myself free of duty because of one reason. You.

Especially the people staying No. 1, I bet they have a lot of pressure. They have to always fight, not even on the court, but off the court, too.

I think everyone wants to look good whether that's on the court or off the court.

I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court.