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| Jag prisar med hög röst, jag klandrar med låg. | Catherine the great (1762-1796) |
| Lovord är en planta som nästan enbart växer på gravar. | Robert Lembke |
| You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank. | Bobby Jones (1902-1971) |
| Tiger is the best athlete that this level of golf has seen. He's lean, he's strong, his swing is marvelous. | Buddy Marucci |
| Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame | Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) |
| A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one | Emily Post (1872-1960) |
| When considering praise or criticism first consider the source. | Jeff Daly |
| You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed | John Bunyan (1628-1688) |
| When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. | Mary H. Waldrip |
| Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart. | Oliver Sacks (1933-) |
| The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. | Oprah Winfrey (1954-) |
| There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. | Roger Ascham |
| Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with. | Jennifer Lopez (1970-) |
| It is great happiness to be praised by them who are most praiseworthy. | Philip Sidney, Sr. (1554-1586) |
| Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. | Satchel Paige (1906-1982) |
| Praise is the best diet for us, after all | Sydney Smith (1771-1845) |
| The sweetest sound of all is praise. | Xenophon |
| The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. | Oprah Winfrey (1954-) |
| I praise loudly, I blame softly | Catherine the great (1762-1796) |
| The highest praise for a person is to give them responsibility | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| You are pretty - we know it; and young - it's true; and rich - who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabula, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Self - praise is no recommendation | Proverb |
| It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| When considering praise or criticism first consider the source. | Jeff Daly |
| Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Self-praise can be put in the same class as anything else you get for nothing | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| Where there is no difficulty there is no praise | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Congratulations is the civility of envy. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair | Bible |
| Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. | Bible |
| Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips | Bible |
| May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands | Bible |
| There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me | Chinese Proverbs |
| We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| An honest man is hurt by praise unjustly bestowed | French Proverb |
| To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| 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 (1898-1978) |
| He only profits from praise who values criticism. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise | Japanese Proverb |
| It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| Praising all alike, is praising none | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. | John Keats (1795-1821) |
| Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| In doing what we ought we deserve no praise | Latin Proverb |
| It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise | Latin Proverb |
| We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) |
| Neither blame or praise yourself. | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| Every peddler praises his own needles | Portuguese Proverb |
| He is a fool that praises himself and a madman that speaks ill of himself | Proverb |
| Some things are better praised by silence than by remark | Proverb |
| Self-praise is half slander | Proverb |
| Fool's praise is censure | Proverb |
| Praise be to Allah, Who has given me in old age Ismail and Ishaq; most surely my Lord is the Hearer of prayer. (Abraham 14.39) | quran |
| Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Blame is safer than praise | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| He who praises everybody, praises nobody. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. | Sydney Smith (1771-) |
| It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Praise makes good men better and bad men worse | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame. | Thomas Kempis |
| I will praise any man that will praise me. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |