#praises

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#dead #feathers #our #past #praises

I fear only God, all praises to Him. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#god #him #i #only #praises

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#condemns #even #his #information #own

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#eat #i #insisting #me #possible

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

#better #equal #first #god #made

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. ↗

— Herman Melville

#any #before #best #children #even