Quotes About Judgment

I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

A man of refined taste and judgment.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.