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Joy Townfolk know pleasures, country people joys.    -- Minna Thomas Antrim How terrible is man's estate. There is not one of his joys which does not spring out of some form of ignorance.    -- Honore de Balzac There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.    -- Henry Ward Beecher In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.    -- Henry Ward Beecher Surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!    -- Louise Bogan Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.    -- Christian Nestell Bovee I cannot sleep--great joy is as restless as great sorrow.    -- Fanny Burney On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.    -- Lord Byron There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.    -- Lord Byron You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.    -- Henry Fielding All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.    -- Eugene Field Joys divided are increased.    -- Josiah Gilbert Holland People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it more.    -- Margaret Collier Graham One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.    -- Elbert Hubbard Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu.    -- John Keats Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.    -- Helen Keller We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.    -- Helen Keller Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?    -- Rose Kennedy Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.    -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.    -- Michel de Montaigne I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.    -- Sara Teasdale Joy is a net of love by which yo can catch souls.    -- Mother Teresa Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.    -- Mark Twain The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.    -- Jessamyn West

Judaism Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.    -- Auerbach To be a Jew is a destiny.    -- Vicki Baum Historically the profoundest meaning of Passover is something which sets Judaism apart from other religions. It marks the birth of a nation. Out of a mass of slaves, Moses fashioned a nation and gave them a faith.    -- Philip S. Bernstein Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being.    -- Morris Joseph

Judgment Good judgement comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgement.    -- Anon. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.    -- Arnold Bennett Judge not, lest ye be judged.    -- Bible:Matthew Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.    -- Albert Camus In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.    -- Joseph Cannon You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.    -- Joseph Conrad There are no judgements so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.    -- Dina Maria Mulock Craik I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.    -- Margaret Deland Hear Everything and judge for yourself.    -- George Eliot Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.    -- Euripides The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.    -- Ed Howe Don't mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.    -- Henry James Next to sound judgement, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.    -- Jean de La Bruyere Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.    -- François de La Rochefoucauld If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.    -- Abraham Lincoln We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow That would be a good thing for them to carve on my toombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgement.    -- Dorothy Parker Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.    -- Theodore Parker Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.    -- William Penn It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.    -- Alexander Pope Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.    -- Dagobert D. Runes When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.    -- Russian Proverb Every morning puts a man on trial, and each evening passes judgement.    -- Roy Smith I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.    -- Ethel Waters I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.    -- First Duke of Wellington Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us.    -- Anna Wickham One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.    -- Woodrow Wilson If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.    -- Elinor Wylie

Justice Ne'er of the living can the living judge. Too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.    -- Anon. Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.    -- Ambrose Bierce In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.    -- Lenny Bruce Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.    -- Edmund Burke Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.    -- Edmund Burke When a just cause reaches its flood tide -- whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.    -- Carrie Chapman Catt Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.    -- François de Chateaubriand Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.    -- Gilbert K. Chesterton 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.    -- Winston Churchill Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.    -- Cicero The wheels of justice -- they're square wheels.    -- Barbara Corcoran There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.    -- Clarence Darrow Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.    -- Daniel Defoe Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.    -- Denis Diderot Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.    -- Norman Douglas Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.    -- Marian Wright Edelman Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.    -- Dwight D. Eisenhower That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.    -- Benjamin Franklin A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.    -- Robert Frost One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.    -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice.    -- Hannah Green There is always time to make right what is wrong.    -- Susan Griffin This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.    -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice is incidental to law and order.    -- J. Edgar Hoover Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.    -- Justinian Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.    -- Lactantius The love of justice in most men is only the fear of themselves suffering by injustice.    -- François de La Rochefoucauld Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.    -- Lord Mansfield There must be justice for the accuser as well as for the accused.    -- Robert Mark A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.    -- H.L. Mencken Crime takes but a moment but justice an eternity.    -- Ellen O'Grady Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.    -- Blaise Pascal Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.    -- William Penn An honest man nearly always thinks justly.    -- Jean Jacques Rousseau He who decides a case without hearing the other side...though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.    -- Seneca Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.    -- George Bernard Shaw A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.    -- Herbert Spencer The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.    -- Mark Twain The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.    -- Voltaire Justice is the great interest of man on earth.    -- Daniel Webster Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.    -- Daniel Webster Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.    -- Jessamyn West No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.    -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.    -- yevgeny Yevtushenko