Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.
Basil BuntingIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceThe Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor StravinskyHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonWhen one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareAll people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him, and rejoice
William KetheFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungWho cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart.
Oliver SacksAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisThe creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
Mary SartonBooks that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Thomas Bailey AldrichWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaigneWe are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E M ForsterThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopePraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanMany a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J B PriestleyExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiThese poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damned fool if they weren't.
Dylan ThomasIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyHunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
Samuel JohnsonFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusIt's all very well Eminem going on about Detroit. You have to be a bit braver to go around singing the praises of Lowestoft!
Justin HawkinsO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonIf to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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