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Tag Name "Praises" (130)

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The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.
Seungsahn
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You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.
Ovid
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The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.
George Washington
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What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?
Louis Untermeyer
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The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
Veronica Roth
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
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There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. And the word, when heard, praises God. So all of creation is a song of praise to God.
Hildegard of Bingen
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Seneca the Younger
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
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It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.
Dorothy Wordsworth
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Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.
Mark the Evangelist
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
Michel de Montaigne
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Plutarch
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Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
George MacDonald
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Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
Ovid
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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
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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
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Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.
Cassandra Clare
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Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
Simon Schama
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Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
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Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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