Quotes by Judges

If there's one thing I've learned in life, if there's one rule I live by, it's never to regret what's happened. Understand by all means, but never regret - it's such a devouring pastime and one that leads nowhere.
Alan Goodwin
Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in the air, the wind that finally whirled away the dust that society had permitted to settle over the horrors of the past. We made sure people could see. And we placed no reliance on legal scholarship. It was evident to us that there had to be convictions. It was just as evident as conviction of this or that camp guard or police enforcer was only the prelude. The generation that had been served by the guards and enforcers, or had done nothing to stop them, or had not banished them from its midst as it could have done after 1945, was in the dock, and we explored it, subjected it to trial by daylight, and condemned it to shame.
Bernhard Schlink
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
Ben Lindsey
Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.
Thomas Haliburton
This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
Lord Ellenborough
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.
Learned Hand
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
Lee Loevinger
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Haliburton
Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.
Charles Montesquieu
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Lord Darling
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Charles Montesquieu
By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far.
Jacob Braude
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
Franklin J. Dickman
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.
Charles Montesquieu
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
Ugo Betti
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Sir William Blackstone
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufstedler
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.
Ugo Betti
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.
Charles Montesquieu
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Lord Francis Jeffrey
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Lord Bowen
I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Ben Lindsey
What the orators want in depth they give you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.
Jacob Braude
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
Ugo Betti
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.
Ugo Betti
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.
Charles Montesquieu
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Lord Francis Jeffrey
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Lord Bowen
I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Ben Lindsey
What the orators want in depth they give you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.
Jacob Braude
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.
Jacob Braude
There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.
Jacob Braude
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.
Jacob Braude
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
she: Before we got married you told me you were well-off. he: I was and I didn't know it.
Jacob Braude
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.
Jacob Braude
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Baron de Montesquieu
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Learned Hand
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Learned Hand
A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
Sir James Mathew
That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.
Lord Diplock
The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Lord Darling
Give your decision never your reasons your decisions may be right your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
Sir William Blackstone
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Haliburton
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.
Sir Matthew Hale
Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
Jacob Braude