Wise judges are we of each other! [ Richelieu ]
Whoso judges others condemns himself. [ Italian Proverb ]
Wit has as few true judges as painting. [ Wycherley ]
The more one judges, the less one loves. [ Balzac ]
Judges should have two ears, both alike. [ German Proverb ]
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign.
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. [ Pope ]
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. [ Cowper ]
What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted? [ Massinger ]
When we love, it is the heart that judges. [ Joubert ]
Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold. [ Pope ]
Judges and senates have been bought for gold. [ Pope ]
A good judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. [ Lyttelton ]
Accusing is proving, where Malice and Force sit judges. [ Proverb ]
Thieves for their robbery have authority, when judges steal themselves. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. [ Law Maxim ]
A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments. [ J. F. Boyes ]
If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself. [ Livingston ]
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment: it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. [ Whipple ]
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them; almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. [ Thackeray ]
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]