366 Quotations with Praise.
- 21. Friedrich Nietzsche: Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, b ...
- 22. William Shakespeare: There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
- 23. W. Somerset Maugham: When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with h ...
- 24. Alec Waugh: A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubti ...
- 25. Socrates: If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how ...
- 26. Michel de Montaigne: When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusatio ...
- 27. Author Unknown: The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
- 28. Tyron Edwards: Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show th ...
- 29. Simms: Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate ...
- 30. Author Unknown: It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
- 31. Eric Hoffer: It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner am ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: GRAPE, n.
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- 37. Ambrose Bierce: HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
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