65 quotes found
“God is better than the best,more intelligent than the most intelligent,more powerful than the most powerful and bigger than the biggest.”
“God is unchangeable changer, unadjustable adjuster, unmoveable mover, unpredictable predictor, unstoppable stopper, uninvisible visible, and wonderful wonder”
“BubbaHarold - "One of the most unique takes on true crime ever.”
“Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger.”
“A rich man's joke is always funny.”
“Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.”
“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”
“Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.”
“Self-praise is no recommendation.”
“Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.”
“Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.”
“It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.”
“Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.”
“The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.”
“He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.”
“Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.”
“The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
“Some praise at morning what they blame at night.”
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.”
“Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both f...”
