(110 quotes found)
“When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself”
Daniel Webster
“The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.”
Irving R. Kaufman
“It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe”
Zachary Taylor
“EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! --J.H. Bumbleshook”
Ambrose Bierce
“Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe”
Euripides
“Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.”
Henry Knox
“Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity”
Walter Kidde
“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”
William Shakespeare
“I don't like the idea of limiting the number of bills. But I think we have to be judicious in terms of how much time we spend on particular bills.”
Brian Moran
“George W. Bush's first appointment, Dick Cheney, makes it crystal clear that Bush's judicial appointments will overturn a woman's constitutional right to choose,”
Carolyn Maloney
