Melvin Belli Quotes

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.