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
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Dean Smith
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
Cleopatra
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Dean Inge
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth
It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
Victor Garber
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
Phil Donahue
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
Steve Wozniak
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.
Jerome Hines
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.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
Mark McGrath
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday
We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.
Robert Teeter
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth
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