The work praises the artist. [ German Proverb ]
Admiration praises; love is dumb. [ Börne ]
Every potter praises his own pot. [ Proverb ]
Praises from wicked men are reproaches. [ Proverb ]
Praises from an enemy imply real merit. [ Proverb ]
He who praises everybody praises nobody. [ Johnson ]
Praises are admonitions well dressed out. [ Proverb ]
The present eye praises the present object. [ William Shakespeare ]
Earth with her thousand voices praises God. [ Coleridge ]
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. [ William Shakespeare ]
None ever gives the lie to him that praises him. [ Proverb ]
He that praises publicly will slander privately. [ Proverb ]
The fox praises the meat out of the crow's mouth. [ Proverb ]
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. [ Seneca ]
He that praises bestows a favour, he that detracts commits a robbery. [ Proverb ]
He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have. [ Manuel ]
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. [ Hare ]
One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. [ William Shakespeare ]
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. [ Lavater ]
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. [ Hare ]
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is a species of ferocity in rejecting indiscriminately all kinds of praises; we should be accessible to those which are given to us by good people, who praise in us sincerely praiseworthy things. [ Bruyere ]
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that in this prudent country most people are so shy of praising anything. [ Hare ]
Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]
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 ]