“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”— Abigail Adams
“He expressed his surprise that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend, but those who have no skill in it act as judges.”— Anacharsis
“I'm less interested in passing judgment on characters than in celebrating their complexity.”— Ken Auletta
“Criticism is the art of judging the qualities and values of an aesthetic object, whether in literature or the fine arts.”— M. H. Abrams
“Nam non is solus cuius de vita quaeritur, sed qui audet, orat, et studet, iudex crit.”— Lucius Accius
“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.”— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”— John Cleese
“There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at a glance that they’re saints. Then there’s the other kind, which is everyone else.”— Robert Cormier
“The computer is only a tool. It's still the forecaster who has to make the final decision.”— Michael Fish