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  • The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

    - Nelson Algren
      Preface to reprint of Chicago: City On The Make (first published1951).

  • Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Genesis18:25.

  •    And he said,Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Exodus 2:14.

  • Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Samuel 8:5.

  • Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name J, and rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: buttherebellious dwell ina dry land.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    AHPsalms 68:4^6.

  •    Judgenot, that yebe not judged.For withwhat judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 7:1^2.

  • Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    James 5:9.

  • And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation19:11.

  • Oh,God! that men would see a little clearer, Or judge less harshly where they cannot see; Oh,God! that men would draw a little nearer To one another, they'd be nearer Thee, And understood.

    -Thomas Bracken
      Not Understood, and Other Poems,'Not Understood'.

  • A tal punto me hunden mis palabras, como dichas por

    - Alejo Carpentier
    English   political   scientist   and   historian.   In   the   diplomatic service   until   1936,   he   was    Assistant   Editor   of   The   Times (1941^6)     and     wrote     several     important     historical     texts, including biographies of Marx (1934) and Bakunin (1937).

  • 'I'll be judge, I'll be jury,'said cunning old Fury; 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'

    -Dodgson
      Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.3, 'A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale', told by the Dormouse.

  •    You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

    - Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
      Lord Jim, ch.34.

  • The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art† The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

    -John Dewey
      Art as Experience.

  • I am as sober as a Judge.

    - Henry Fielding
      Don Quixote in England, act 3, sc.14.

  • The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      The Deserted Village, l.266^8.

  • History may judge my politics†readers may judge my books.

    - Eric (John Ernest) Hobsbawm
      Interesting Times:  A  Twentieth-Century Life.

  • On jugerait bien plus s u" rement un homme d'apre'  s ce qu'il re"  ve que d'apre'  s ce qu'il pense. We would judge a man more certainlyaccording to his dreams than to his thoughts.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Les Mise  rables, vol.3, bk.5, ch.5.

  • A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or unjustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. 444

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark,15  Aug. Quoted in James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785).

  • Here comes the judge.

    - Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham
      Song title, co-written with Dick  Alen, Bob  Astor and Sarah Harvey. Often quoted as a vaudeville catchphrase,'Here come de judge'.

  • You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

    -Thomas Otway
      Titus and Berenice, prologue.

  • A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.

    - Hubert Lister Parker
      Quoted in the Observer,12 Mar.

  • Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

    -William Penn
      Some Fruits of Solitude.

  • Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.15^18.

  • My soul; sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes, every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

    - Francis Quarles
      Epigram, Respice Finem.

  • Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

    - Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
    Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 39.

  • Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      Lord Illingworth. AWoman of No Importance, act 2.

  •    The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.

    - (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
      Inaugural address, 4 Mar.

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