Quotes
Quotes about Court
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation? Have equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return?
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace.
Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.
A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.
The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
