It is easier to ridicule than commend. [ Proverb ]
Commend not your wife, wine, nor house. [ Proverb ]
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe and a suspicious friend. [ Pope ]
Women commend a modest man but like him not. [ Proverb ]
Friends I have made, whom envy must commend.
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. [ Churchill ]
'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend. [ Southerne ]
His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]
Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. [ William Shakespeare ]
Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain.
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale;
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses, newly washed with dew;
Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is safer to commend the dead than the living. [ Proverb ]
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. [ Proverb ]
You should ask the world's leave before you commend yourself. [ Proverb ]
When we commend good actions we make them in some measure our own. [ Proverb ]
How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]
Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom. [ Fielding ]
Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom. [ Fielding ]
Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms. [ Field ]
The Golden Rule Of Three.
Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]
Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]
There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth. [ Bacon ]
No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]
Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses? [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]