636 Quotations with Raise.
- 41. Author Unknown: The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.

- 42. Tyron Edwards: Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show th ...

- 43. Simms: Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate ...

- 44. Author Unknown: It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

- 45. Eric Hoffer: It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

- 46. Marlene Dietrich: I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turni ...

- 47. Grandma Moses: If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

- 48. Ambrose Bierce: ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner am ...

- 49. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...

- 50. Ambrose Bierce: CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired boo ...

- 51. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...

- 52. Ambrose Bierce: EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, ...

- 53. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...

- 54. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...

- 55. Ambrose Bierce: GRAPE, n.
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- 56. Ambrose Bierce: HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of ...

- 57. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...

- 58. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 59. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...

- 60. Ambrose Bierce: LOW-BRED, adj. "Raised" instead of brought up.

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