The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.
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