Quotes & Sayings About Gavels

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing. — Fran Lebowitz

Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying. — Jonathan Safran Foer

So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself. — Dennis Bray