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Praises Quotes

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
Nick Lampson

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
Don J. Manuel

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
George Balanchine

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoevsky

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
Stephen Ambrose

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Minna Antrim

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
Martin Yan

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
John Burns

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
Lactantius

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda Meir

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Augustus Hare

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
Mary H. Waldrip

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