A Quote by Phineas Fletcher

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

Phineas Fletcher

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Address Best Long Only Open Praise Well

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Phineas Fletcher
English - Poet
1582 - 1650

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.

Christoph Waltz

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

C. S. Lewis

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Thomas Ken

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Samuel Johnson

in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

Adrienne Rich

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

C. S. Lewis

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

John Milton

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Bobby Jones

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Studs Terkel

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Dean Smith

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

St. Jerome

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

John Ruskin

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.