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"Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe." »Euripides
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"Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff." »The Hitopadesa
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"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." »Pierre Charron
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"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." »Pierre Charron
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"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise." »Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes." »Zelda
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious." »Barnaby Rich
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