Plead

Famous quotes containing the word plead:

“Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them—their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“I’d rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.”
—Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)