Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Judy Sheindlin

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success.

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

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

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

I think that you're supposed to know when it's time to say goodbye.

Because of the world we live in, we lock the doors in our house when we go to sleep. If you live in an apartment, if you can, you get a building that has a doorman or security.

You lock your windows before you leave. You put on an alarm if you live in the country because you know that there are bad people out there. Well, in this Internet age, you know that there are bad people out there. And no matter what you do, those bad people are going to get into your house.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

It's nice to leave on top.

They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking for someone to knock me off of my perch.

Never let anyone or anything define your value or limit your dream.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

I still love working. I still love being in the mix of things.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

Uh' is not an answer.

My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

I still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast.

I'm not a good interviewer.

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.

I'm an entertainer, and I'm paid as an entertainer.

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.

I eat liars for breakfast.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'

I've had an absolutely magical run.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

This country has a wonderful spirit.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.

I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.