Praise Quotes
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If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.
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It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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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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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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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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We are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate. . . . . There's not a child so small and weak But has his little cross to take, His little work of love and praise That he may do for Jesus' sake.
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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
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Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
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That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.
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There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
