These 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 ThomasYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da Vinci'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 SoutheyIf to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentAll 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 KetheReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfePraise 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 BuntingO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonMany 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 PriestleyAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaigneIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay AshExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchWho 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 MooreNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertYou 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 CampbellThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergThe 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 SartonPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamIt'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 HawkinsThe 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 StravinskyWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckWe 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 ForsterModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren Buffett
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