Quotes About Judgment

I often wonder what it is makes bints pair off like this, one lovely and one horrible. You see it all the time and it must have turned more lads against one another than nearly anything else because if you're hunting in pairs somebody's got to have the horror.

I said, "Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency," but nobody listened to me. I wasn't on TV.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

Subjective feelings are largely irrelevant to the moral issue at hand so long as they are not transformed into action.

I always think in this connection of the Rumanian saying my in-laws use when they see an extremely obese person: "So, you ate what you wanted.

Toward some few others who habitually became drunk or who couldn't control their drinking, most people adopted an attitude between knowing condescension and outright scorn: why were these people so weak or immoral as not to know when enough was enough?

There will always be people who say mean words because you are different, and sometimes their minds cannot be changed. But there are many more people who do not judge others based on how they look or where they are from. Those are the people whose words truly matter.

It seems to me that every day Is an audition.

asked. He held on to a shelf, raising and lowering it for her approval. Stepping back to assess,

Le resulta agotador estar en compañía de personas para las que una sonrisa espontánia es señal de infantil debilidad.

Drei Männer treffen in einer Gefängniszelle zusammen und fragen einander nach dem Grund ihrer Verhaftung. Der Erste sagt, er sitzt wegen einer negativen Äußerung über Karl Radek, den führenden sowjetischen Publizisten und Politiker. Der Zweite sagt, er sitzt, weil er Karl Radek gelobt hat. Der dritte Häftling schweigt melancholisch. Als die beiden ihn fragen, antwortet er: "Und ich - ich bin Karl Radek ...

[Referring to people who are critical of others:] You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.

Klug sein hat noch nie einen Menschen an Dummheiten gehindert.

When one is old, one has only to look at a person to know him through and through. I know a good man when I see one. My wife taught me that, God rest her soul …

Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.

La justicia pública decide seguramente sobre esas cosas con mayor severidad que yo; ella tiene el deber de proteger despiadadamente las costumbres establecidas y las convenciones legales; está obligada a juzgar y no a disculpar. Yo, sin embargo, en tanto que persona privada, no veo por qué he de adoptar el papel de juez; prefiero actuar de defensor. Personalmente, me causa mayor satisfacción comprender a los hombres que condenarlos.

You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.

By this time the Gentle Reader is thinking that people who go to church and sing in the choir should not make love in hayfields.

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

If the sailor in his sling were to turn and look down on her, he'd know she was a whore by the tentacles.