When 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 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 StravinskyThe 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 SartonI 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 BlairThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettThese 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 ThomasIt'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 HawkinsFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopePraise 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 BuntingYou 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 CampbellAnything 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 AureliusWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamAll 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 KetheWe 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 ForsterBooks 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 AldrichTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceMany 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 PriestleyWho 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 SacksThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay AshAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachIf to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentHunger 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 JohnsonFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
Montaigne'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayA 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 AdamsHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
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