He 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 WolfeThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxThese 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 ThomasAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithMany 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 PriestleyIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithHunger 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 JohnsonThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay AshBooks 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 AldrichPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellWe 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 ForsterYou 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 JonsonA 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 Adams'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin Keegan'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 SoutheyNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareGreat 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 LandorPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckPraise 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 BuntingThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesThe 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 SartonNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertAnything 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 AureliusThe 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 StravinskyIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungAll 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 KetheWho 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 SacksWhen 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 MooreVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckIt's all very well Eminem going on about Detroit. You have to be a bit braver to go around singing the praises of Lowestoft!
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