Praise Quotes - page 2

Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy. (Izaak Walton)
Praise is the best diet for us, after all. View quote
Sydney Smith
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. View quote
Christopher Morley
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. View quote
Joseph Addison
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. (Francis de Sales)
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Philosophers are as jealous as women each wants a monopoly of praise. View quote
George Santayana
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. View quote
Alex Haley
Envy is a kind of praise. View quote
John Gay
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going. View quote
E. B. White
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. View quote
Aeschylus
Neither blame or praise yourself. View quote
Plutarch
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. View quote
William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. (William Wordsworth)
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. View quote
William Wordsworth
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. View quote
Romain Rolland
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. View quote
Edward Young