A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

William Shakespeare

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Robert Herrick

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

William Shakespeare

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Maya Angelou

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Alfred Adler

I don't say any word that I don't approve.

Bruce Campbell

I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.

Louise Hay

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

Charles Hodge

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Epicurus

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

Garth Nix

To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.