Quotes About Evaluation

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

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

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

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again

The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.