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Jealousy
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare
[Jealousy] arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6:34
Jew
In America, they [American Jews] may feel they are Jews. But in Israel, they feel they are Americans.
Ernest van den Haag
Joke
A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend.
Thomas Fuller
Journalism
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Journalist
There is no such thing as an independent press. You know it, and I know it. I [as a journalist] am paid $150 a week for keeping honest opinions out of the paper. We are intellectual prostitutes, and our time and our talents are the property of other men.
An unidentified New York editor, 1917
Joy
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles
Great joys, like griefs, are silent.
Shakerley Marmion
Judge
There must always be a goodly number of judges, for few will always do the will of the few.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare—to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
Francis Bacon
Judgment
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Thomas Jefferson
Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.
Author unidentified
Justice
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. Mencken
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush
I like my wine French, my beer German, my vodka Russian, and my judicial system American.
Chief Justice John Roberts
Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.
Exodus 23:2-3
Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
Author unidentified
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