JUDGE

Related Subjects: Criticism, Judgment, Judgment Day, Jury, Justice, Law, Lawyers, Precedent

1. That judges of important causes should hold office for life is not a good thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.—ARISTOTLE, Politics
   

2. A judge is not God; his duty is to adapt facts to principles, to judge cases of infinite variety while measuring them by a fixed standard.—BALZAC, The Commission in Lunacy
   

3. France employs about six thousand judges; no generation has six thousand great men at her command, much less can she find them in the legal profession.—BALZAC, The Commission in Lunacy
   

4. I am as sober as a judge.—FIELDING, Don Quixote in England
   

5. A judge ought to go through a term of hard labor, of penal servitude, three strokes of the "cat" and a partial hanging before being fit to pass any sentence. Who would be a judge on these terms, I wonder?—LAURENCE HOUSMAN
   

6. The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others; knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.—PLATO, The Republic
   

7. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
   And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.—POPE, The Rape of the Lock
   

8. Magistrates are to obey as well as execute laws.—Proverb
   

9. An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.—Proverb
   

10. The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

11. No one should be judge in his own cause.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

12. Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
    That no king can corrupt.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

13. An upright judge, a learned judge.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

14. Fill the seats of justice
    With good men, not so absolute in goodness
    As to forget what human frailty is.—SIR T. N. TALFOURD, Ion