Judge Cardozo Quotes

#1. He wasn't a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.

Michael Crummey

#2. Men will always be boys.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Benjamin Cardozo

#4. Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

William Nathaniel Bell

#5. It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Wellington Mara

#6. That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#7. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

Sherman Alexie

#8. Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

Carl Honore

#9. 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.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#10. Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

Paul Weyrich

#11. The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#12. Developing and recovering from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) was merely a bump in the radiation research road.

Steven Magee

#13. The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#14. You're forgetting ... we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I'm thinking he's expecting one this year as well. - Carol

Matthew Leeth

#15. Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Anthony Burgess

#16. The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#17. It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins

Benjamin Cardozo