Quotes About Judgment

Give your decision, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.