#latter

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#flattering #image #most #stuck

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#am #fan #flattering #honor #i

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. ↗

— Hank Ketcham

#chewing gum #enjoy #flattery #gum #like

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. ↗

— Democritus

#course #former #latter #mark #prudence

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#admire #aesthetic #approval #complete #different

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#failings #hide #latter #most #others

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Jack Paar

#form #immigration #sincerest #sincerest form

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. ↗

— Jean Paul

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