When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
Michel de Montaigne
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He was very pleased when I got this role. At 79, he still knows every line from memory. If he praises something, then I know I've done well.
Gaetan Laperriere
His mood was ecstatic. He gave all praises to Allah and then to me.
Robert Dunn
She's doing great. I give all praises to God and Dr. Rosen.
Cynthia Turner
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
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
Don Juan Manuel
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
Mary H. Waldrip
I'm not singing any praises here, but it really does take a different kind of person to be able to do this daily.
Linda West
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.
August Hare
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge
And with faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
One woman never praises another.
Estonian Proverb
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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