Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon
Related Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confi... FRANCIS BACON SR. Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf... FRANCIS BACON Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than
plausible, and more advised than con... FRANCIS BACON Integrity is more significant than income. Honor is more opulent than fame. Self worth is more afflu... SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? JULIAN BARNES Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtu... HOSEA BALLOU Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue... HOSEA BALLOU Your reputation is more important than your materialistic happiness & your integrity is worth more t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill ... JOHN RUSKIN It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witt... HONORE DE BALZAC What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and whi... HARRIET MARTINEAU I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a
bigger body, more awful, more rever... GERALD STANLEY LEE Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they ar... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and... DANIEL BARENBOIM Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. HONORE DE BALZAC The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule... KIRBY LARSON Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fat... FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT They ought to be good. They play more golf than we do. FUZZY ZOELLER Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. VAN WYCK BROOKS The judges' inauguration makes this court more unstoppable than ever, RICHARD DICKER The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ... BERNARD WILLIAMS In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather t... MIKE MCCAUL When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow... JAMES THURBER You cannot display more integrity than you actually have. MICHAEL B. KITSON An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important li... JULIO CORTáZAR It's better than expected, above all in fashion and leather goods and wines and spirits. The tone of... ANTOINE BELGE The bigger points, he played better. He played more relaxed and more confident than I was. IVAN LJUBICIC Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more t... WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforce... HANNAH ARENDT Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Uk... TIMOTHY GARTON ASH The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn t... EUGENE KENNEDY Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than... BARUCH SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than... BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than... BARUCH SPINOZA Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. NINON DE L'ENCLOS Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. NINON DE LENCLOS Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. VOLTAIRE For Bill it was always more about character and integrity than wins and losses. HARVEY SMITH Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. GEORGE ELIOT when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy mo... C.S. LEWIS A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than wit... RUSSELL M. NELSON There’s nothing more valuable in life than integrity. Trust me. FRANK SONNENBERG I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar. DITA VON TEESE To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more ... THOMAS MOORE I'll probably have more fun messing with the judges than the referees. HORACE BROADNAX Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. BUDDHA Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art o... RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art o... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault. ALLEN DOUGLAS There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea... SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea... SENECA Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others thi... ANON. It is more than just learning in the classroom ... Learning is more involved than that and more comp... PRINCIPAL THERESA WEIDENBAUGH Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers. MARGUERITE GARDINER More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. ROBERT SMITH SURTEES She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wittiness turns me on more than anything else. CAITY LOTZ Judges and lawyers can play games like this at their office. These are penny games here. It's more f... DOUG MCMANUS That's so close, he must of leaned just a little more than I did. LUKE RUCKS He's more comfortable than last year. Last year he was thrown into the fire. This year he understand... ERIC BARBER The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. AMBROSE BIERCE A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. GRANVILLE HICKS A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of co... ALBERT J. NOCK Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of con... ADAM SMITH Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of c... ADAM SMITH Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes. JOHN PATRICK HICKEY Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and L... SHRI RADHE MAA Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than pray... HARRIET ROCHLIN Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor;... WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and sim... CHARLES CALEB COLTON We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEX COMFORT We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Excellence can be obtained if you:...care more than others think is wise;...risk more than others th... RALPH MARSTON Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. PROVERB It's important for us to emphasize the good things and correct their mistakes. More often than not, ... KRISTI RELLER There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann... CONFUCIUS As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollyw... JOSEPH WAMBAUGH Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is... RONNIE OLDHAM A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent HONORE DE BALZAC What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? GEORGE ELIOT A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are... MALCOLM D. LEE Love is the whole and more than all. E.E. CUMMINGS Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and si... CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than get... J. DONALD WALTERS In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. GEORGE HERBERT Love is more powerful than kicking ass. JET LI The site is an embarrassment, first and foremost, to all of us that felt confident it would move for... KATHRYN WYLDE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ... ANDRE GIDE To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH They are not only drinking more than their male peers, but they are now more likely to drink more he... DAVID JERNIGAN Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and ... ERROL MORRIS
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mother.
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the cause frustrates the effect. FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
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FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance. FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
Adversity is the blessing of the New. FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- ... FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the w... FRANCIS BACON