A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

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.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!