Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorIt'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 HawkinsIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaigneThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesA 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 AdamsPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusBooks 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 AldrichYou 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 Campbell'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William Shakespeare'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 SoutheyHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettWe 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 ForsterPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamMany 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 PriestleyIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay AshHunger 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 JohnsonWhen 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 MooreThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterPraise 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 BuntingThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisWho 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.
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