“Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six”

“Everyone thinks they'll make a better judge than any judge don't they? You see these nonces getting off with a six quid fine and being given a house next door to a school. And you think 'I wouldn't have done that.'”

“During another examination the question paper read, ‘do any six questions, all questions carry equal marks’. But I attempted more than six questions and wrote for the examiner, “examine any six questions, all questions carry equal marks.”

“Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables.”

“There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”

“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

“It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.”

“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”