Quotes About Judgment

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Names are not always what they seem.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

it don't make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.

I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.

And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

I felt like the Last Man, neglected of the judgment, and left pinnacled in mid-heaven, a forgotten relic of a vanished world.