Poor Judgement

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or judgement:

    “Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. They did not know it was a deed of fame they were doing. These men did not babble of glory. They never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most. They supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their governors. And as they had no fear of man, they yet did have a fear of God.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “They have whetted their teeth against the stones,
    And now they pick the Bishop’s bones;
    They gnawed the flesh from every limb,
    For they were sent to do judgement on him!”
    —Robert Southey (1774–1843)