A Quote by Dodie Smith

Oh, wise young judge.

Dodie Smith

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Judge Oh Wise Young

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Dodie Smith
English - Novelist
May 3, 1896 - November 24, 1990

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

Stephen Colbert

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

Paul Theroux

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Martin Luther

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Bob Dylan

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

Michel Foucault

I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Wei Wu Wei

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

Robert Southey

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

James Montgomery

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Richard Gere

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Sophia Loren

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Madame Roland

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.