JAZZ : A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Benny Green: U.S. hard-bop jazz pianist, Born 1963)
JAZZ : Jazz arises from a spirit of love; it comes from the mind and heart and goes through the fingertips. (Mary Lou Williams: U.S. versatile pianist who worked with jazz greats of all fields, stretching from stride to boogie-woogie to bop, 1910-1981)
JAZZ : Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. (Ornette Coleman: U.S. jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1930-2015)
JAZZ : Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (John P. Sousa: U..S. music conductor, composer of military marches and known best for the 'Stars and Stripes Forever,' 1854-1932)
JAZZ (U.S.A.) : Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. (Paul Whiteman: U.S. bandleader, composer, and orchestral director, often referred to as the 'King of Jazz,' 1890-1967)
JESUS : If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? (Unknown Source: )
JEWELRY : Kissing your hand may make you feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. (Anita Loos: U.S. actress, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, 1889-1981)
JINGOISM : We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)
JOBHOLDER : A bad workman blames his tools. (French Proverb: )
JOBS : Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)
JOBS : If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. (Unknown Source: )
JOBS : It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off—and how unimportant it is when you want a raise. (Robert Orben: U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)
JOBS : No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom, and when you get there, be really great at sorting mail. (Randy Pausch: U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)
JOKES : A rich man's joke is always funny. (Thomas E. Brown: British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897)
JOKES : Jokes of the proper kind . . . can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
JOKES : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
JOKES : The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. (Friedrich Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
JOURNALING : Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. (Christina Baldwin: U.S. novelist and a long-time published author, Born 1946)
JOURNALISM : A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)
JOURNALISM : Journalism is history on the run. (Unknown Source: )
JOURNALISM : Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations. (Unknown Source: )
JOURNALISM : Journalism provides the first draft of history. (Gerard Baker: British-American journalist and editor- in-chief of the 'Wall Street Journal,')
JOURNALISM : Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
JOURNALISM : The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)
JOURNALISM : The quality of journalism and the quality of democracy go hand-in-hand. (Unknown Source: )
JOURNALISM : There’s no need to confuse television news with journalism. (Nora Ephron: U.S. journalist, writer, and filmmaker, 1941-2012)
JOURNALISM : You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford: English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996)
JOURNALISTS : The proper role of the news reporter is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Unknown Source: )
JOURNEY : It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. (Ursula K. LeGuin: U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)
JOURNEY : Not all journeys are on roads. (Unknown Source: )
JOY : A joy that's shared is a joy made double (English proverb: )
JOY : A joy that's shared is a joy made double. (Unknown Source: )
JOY : Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)
JOY : Joy is the best makeup. (Anne Lamott: U.S. novelist, a non-fiction writer, and also a progressive political activist, Born 1954)
JOY : Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. (Swedish Proverb: )
JOY : Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive (Khajeh Hafiz: Persian poet and philosopher, c.1320-1389)
JOY : That sorrow that is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy that is followed by sorrow. (Saadi Shirazi: Persian poet, 1210-1291)
JOY : The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
JOY : The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
JOY : The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)
JOY : There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)
JOY : There is no pleasure without pain. (Walter Raleigh: English statesman, soldier, writer, and explorer who played a leading part in the English colonization of North America,1552-1618)
JOY : To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
JOY : Unshared joy is an unlighted candle. (Unknown Source: )
JOY : We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
JOY : Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalm of the U.S. civil rights movement) (Bible: Psalm 30:5: )
JOY : You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
Judaism : Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)
JUDGES : Four things belong to a judge to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. (Unknown Source: )
JUDGING : If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)
JUDGMENT : Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. (Alain de Lille: French theologian, c. 1128-1202)
JUDGMENT : Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. (Native American Proverb: )
JUDGMENT : Do not measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. (Unknown Source: )
JUDGMENT : Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. (American Indian Proverb: )
JUDGMENT : Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
JUDGMENT : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)
JUDGMENT : Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)
JUDGMENT : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)
JUDGMENT : It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. (: )
JUDGMENT : It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)
JUDGMENT : Make no judgments where you have no compassion. (Anne McCaffrey: U.S.-Irish writer, 1926-2011)
JUDGMENT : Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgment. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)
JUDGMENT : Never of the living can the living judge—too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. (Unknown Source: )
JUDGMENT : No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)
JUDGMENT : Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. (Cardinal de Retz: French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the French civil wars, 1613-1679)
JUDGMENT : Our judgments about things vary according to the time left us to live—that we think is left us to live. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
JUDGMENT : Statistics are no substitute for judgment. (Henry Clay: U.S. attorney, statesman, and orator, 1777-1852)
JUDGMENT : The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. (German Proverb: )
JUDGMENT : The senses are bad witnesses; they are untrustworthy. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)
JUDGMENT : There are two kinds of fools: One says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better." (William R. Inge: English author and Anglican priest who was a three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1860-1954)
JUDGMENT : They who dance are thought to be insane by those who hear not the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
JUDGMENT : Time is the fairest and toughest judge. (Edgar Quinet: French historian and intellectual, 1803-1875)
JUDGMENT : We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things (Epictetus: Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery and then lived in Rome until his banishment, Died 135 A.D.)
JUDGMENT : We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex: as the Gospel says, 'wheat and chaff go together.' (Patricio Aylwin: Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)
JUDGMENT : What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936)
JUDGMENT : When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)
JUDGMENT : Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? (Beryl Markham: British-Kenyan aviator, author and adventurer who was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America, 1902-1986)
JUDGMENT : Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
JUDGMENT : You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)
JUDGMENT : You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
JUDICIARY : It is better ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. (William Blackstone: English jurist, judge, and politician who is most noted for writing the 'Commentaries on the Laws of England,' 1728-1780)
JUDICIARY : It is better to prevent crimes than it is to punish them. (Cesare Beccaria: Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, 1738-1794)
JUDICIARY (U.S.A.) : The Supreme Court has no influence over either the sword or the purse. (Alexander Hamilton: Caribbean-born American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, economist, and one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.A., 1757-1804))
JUDICIARY (U.S.A.) : The U.S. is under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is. (Charles E. Hughes: U.S. statesman, Governor of New York, and jurist in the Supreme Court, 1862-1948)
JURIES : A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)
JURIES : When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Norm Cosby: U.S. comedian, known as the 'Master of Malaprop,' 1927-2020)
JURISPRUDENCE : I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principle of the constitution. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
JURISPRUDENCE : In the hands of judges, the Constitution is a mere thing of wax that judges can twist and shape to their liking and in their own design. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
JURISPRUDENCE : No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)
JURISPRUDENCE : There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)
JUSTICE : A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
JUSTICE : A recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion . . . and the discovery of a standard of judgment. (Unknown Source: )
JUSTICE : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)
JUSTICE : As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity. (William H. Seward: U.S. politician who was a determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, 1801-1872)
JUSTICE : Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)
JUSTICE : Equaity delayed is justice denied. (Annie: )
JUSTICE : Extreme justice is extreme injustice. (Latin Proverb: )
JUSTICE : Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)
JUSTICE : He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
JUSTICE : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
JUSTICE : If you want peace, work for justice. (Pope Paul VI: Leader of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, 1963-1978, Born 1897, Died 1978)
JUSTICE : Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
JUSTICE : It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. (Mary Wollstonecraft: English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, 1759-1797)
JUSTICE : Justice delayed is justice denied. (William E. Gladstone: British statesman who served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms, and he also also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, for over 12 years, 1809-1898)
JUSTICE : Justice is what love looks like in public. (Raphael Warnock: U.S. Baptist pastor, Born 1969)
JUSTICE : Justice too long delayed is justice denied. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
JUSTICE : Justice will never come if we only do the things that are comfortable. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)
JUSTICE : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)
JUSTICE : Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)
JUSTICE : Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Reinhold Niebuhr: U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)
JUSTICE : Never forget . . . that justice is what love looks like in public. (Cornel West: U.S. philosopher, political activist, social critic, and author, Born 1953)
JUSTICE : Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice. (Paul Tillich: German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)
JUSTICE : Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman: U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)
JUSTICE : The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)
JUSTICE : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Unknown Source: )
JUSTICE : The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)
JUSTICE : The opposite of poverty is not wealth. . . . In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)
JUSTICE : The path of the just, or of justice, is a shining light. (Bible: Proverbs 4:18: )
JUSTICE : The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Unknown Source: )
JUSTICE : There are those who say -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)
JUSTICE : Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
JUSTICE : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Unknown Source: )
JUSTICE : Wickedness never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. (Unknown Source: )
JUSTICE (U.S.A.) : Justice for all alike—a square deal for every man, great or small, rich or poor. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)
JUSTICE (U.S.A.) : We have a system of justice in (the U.S.A.) that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)
JUSTIFICATION : The end must justify the means. (Matthew Prior: English poet and diplomat, 1664-1721)