Judging Quotes - Page 35

• Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Judgement, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Judgement

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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• The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Judgement, Facts

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.439, Penguin

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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Judgement, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.294, Library of America

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• Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eggs, Judgement, Very Good

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• Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Doubt, Should

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.35

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• Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

  Stephen Gillers

  Justice, Lawyer, Made

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• The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brave Face, Justice, Community

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

  Dorothy Draper

  Wall, Color, Design

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• Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

  James Edward Smith

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Needs

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• But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

  George J. Mitchell

  Pregnancy, Years, United States

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• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Joy

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Encouragement, Way, Faults

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• What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

  Rosie Batty

  Simple, People, Domestic Violence

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• The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Intelligent, Player, Games

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• God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

  William Cowper

  Courage, Failure, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Compassion, Opposites

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• When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

  Edward Albee

  Matter, Morality, Censorship

  EDWARD ALBEE (1961). “THE AMERICAN DREW THE ZOO STORY”

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• The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.

  Thurman Arnold

  Writing, Differences, Trying

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• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Michael Kinsley

  Marijuana, Law, Doe

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• I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Dog, Nature, Cat

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• Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Marriage, Couple, Married

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• The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Learning, Intelligent, Player

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