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# Weekend Words: Judge
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-judge/
- Published: 2017-02-12T14:30:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:27:55.000Z
- Description: "The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Art, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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German Miniaturist, “King Solomon as Judge” (12th century), manuscript (Codex 601), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (image via Web Gallery of Art)

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit federal appeals panel — Judge Michelle T. Friedland; Judge William C. Canby Jr.; and Judge Richard R. Clifton — unanimously rejected Donald Trump’s travel ban, delivering what *The New York Times* [called](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/politics/appeals-court-trump-travel-ban.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&ref=hyperallergic.com) “the latest and most stinging judicial rebuke to his effort to make good on a campaign promise and tighten the standards for entry into the United States.”

> The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.  
>  
> **—Walt Whitman**

> A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.  
>  
> **—German Proverb**

> A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.  
>  
> **—H. L. Mencken**

> That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.  
>  
> **—Dorothy Parker, “But the One on the Right” (1929)**

> Never judge a book by its movie.  
>  
> **—J. W. Eagan**

> Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.  
>  
> **—Lillian Hellman**

> I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.  
>  
> **—Jane Austen**

> We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.  
>  
> **—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow**

> I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.  
>  
> **—Winston Churchill**

> I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the Future.  
>  
> **—Dan Quayle**

> Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.  
> I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.  
> All that was said in Ireland is a lie  
> Bred out of the contagion of the throng,  
> Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.  
> Leave nothing but the nothings that belong  
> To this bare soul, let all men judge that can  
> Whether it be an animal or a man.  
>  
> **—William Butler Yeats, “Parnell’s Funeral”**

> Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.  
>  
> **—Oscar Wilde**

> About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.  
>  
> **—Josh Billings**

> Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.  
>  
> **—Voltaire**

> Hear ye, hear ye, the court of swing  
> Is just about ready to do that thing  
> I don’t want no tears, I don’t want no lies  
> Above all, I don’t want no alibis  
> This judge is hip, and that ain’t all  
> He’ll give you time if you’re big or small  
>  
> **—Pigmeat Markham, “Here Comes the Judge”**

> Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.  
>  
> **—Albert Camus**