O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisThe 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 StravinskyHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyThe 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 LowellExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeMany 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 PriestleyI 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 BlairWho 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 SacksNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertWhen 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'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 SoutheyPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay AshYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareIt'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 HawkinsWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James Wolfe'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayPraise 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 BuntingThese 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 ThomasOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotThe 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 SartonGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettYou 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 CampbellIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergIf 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 GoldsmithA 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.
John AdamsWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaigneHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben Jonson
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