Quotes About Judgment

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends, enemies, and relatives say behind his back.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

God will forgive me. That's his business.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.