Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorWe 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 ForsterAnything 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 AureliusYou 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 CampbellPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayWho 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 SacksNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfePeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithThe 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 KentNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertA 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 AdamsThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckAll 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 KetheMany 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 PriestleyBooks 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 AldrichWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachPraise 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 BuntingWhen 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 MooreFor 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 HawkinsTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater 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 BlairThe 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 SartonWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciModesty 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 SoutheyNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
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