I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today
Tony BlairPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanWe 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 ForsterMany 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 PriestleyFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespearePraise 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 BuntingAnything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus AureliusIt'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 JonsonThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeThese 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 ThomasYou praise the firm restraint with which they write -
I'm with you there, of course:
They use the snaffle and the surb all right,
But where's the bloody horse?
Roy CampbellVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaWho 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 SacksPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchBooks 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 Aldrich'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganWhen 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 MooreAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusThe 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 SartonOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespearePraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater Hunger 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 JohnsonYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois'And everybody praised the Duke,
Who this great fight did win.'
'But what good came of it at last?'
Quoth little Peterkin.
'Why that I cannot tell', said he,
'But 'twas a famous victory.'
Robert SoutheyThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachAll 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 KetheThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
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