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Jesus4 quotes
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. — Jesus · 60Judge not, that ye be not judged. — Jesus · 60Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. — Jesus · 90Judge not according to the appearance. — Jesus · 90Benjamin Franklin2 quotes
E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within. — Benjamin Franklin · 1741You can bear your own Faults, why not a Fault in your Wife? — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Charlotte Perkins Gilman1 quote
The people people choose for friends
Your common sense appall,
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1899H.G. Wells1 quote
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry. — H.G. Wells · 1894J.R.R. Tolkien1 quote
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954Jim Casy1 quote
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. — Jim Casy · 1940John Major1 quote
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. — John Major · 1993Jonathan Swift1 quote
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. — Jonathan Swift · 1704Mark Twain1 quote
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. — Mark Twain · 1894Moliere1 quote
One should look long and carefully at oneself
Before one considers judging others. — Moliere · 1666Pope Francis1 quote
If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? — Pope Francis · 2013Tracy Lord1 quote
The time to make up your mind about people is never. — Tracy Lord · 1940