Praise Quotes
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
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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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New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. ... It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.
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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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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
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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.
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Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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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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My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
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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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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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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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Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
