Praise Quotes
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A mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
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Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
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Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
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For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
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Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
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Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians of science will have cause to heap praise on this book, but so too will the non-specialists. The author's splendid writing style, at times appropriately Puckish, makes this work an accessible and enjoyable read.
