Quotes About Judgment

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

I believe in practicing prudence, at least once every two or three years.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'