It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
[History is] petrified imagination.
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.