Quotes About Judgment

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

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

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you're a better man than I

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.