Quotes
Quotes about End
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity. -Hung Tzu-Cheng.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]
Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious for and think not At all a friend to truth.
To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.
My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
