#praises

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#another #capable #could #expense #friend

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#eat #i #insisting #me #possible

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#deliver #guys #lord #praises #sang

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#earth #praises #shines #tears #through

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. ↗

— George Balanchine

#better #equal #first #god #made

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

#all things #amplified #confess #exploits #frequently

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. ↗

— Golda Meir

#average man #blame #blames #doubt #his

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. ↗

— Herman Melville

#any #before #best #children #even

Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises. ↗

— Anthony Esolen

#man-praises #imagination

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future