Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Judy Sheindlin - Page 2

I never had an issue with gender.

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

You should want to give something back.

Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

I think I'm a good fact finder.

I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.

All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.

I set realistic goals consistent with my talents. I never, for instance, wanted to sit on an appellate court. I'm not an academic. Truth be told, I hate to do research. I have a practical mind, and I was well suited for the trial court bench, not the appellate.

People are supposed to be responsible.

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.

I just think I'm direct.

When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refrigerator, mail done so that I can better negotiate what will await me.

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn't need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just 'does it.'

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.

I don't read bad mail. I don't save mail. I'm too old to read negative things.

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

Being a TV star is a great gift. Everyone treats you royally.

TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.

While I sat in family court, I probably heard 20 or 25,000 cases. And I am sure, during the course of those cases, there were cases that I probably would've decided differently had I had either more time or been able to explore more. But all you can do as a judge is really give a case your best effort.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife.

Unless you believe in reincarnation, this is your one shot.

Since I'm the judge, it's a very stupid thing to irritate me!

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

It's your life; live it well.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.