Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.