Praise Quotes - Page 19

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

Lord! who hath praise enough?

Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Flattery is praise without foundation.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Good things should be praised.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro- Putin elements in the Ukraine, who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?