Man Praises Quotes

#1. When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

Mason Cooley

#2. when a man praises himself, it is intellectual suicide.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#3. Every man praises his own wares.

John Ray

#4. Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.

Anthony Esolen

#5. The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#6. The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

Florentijn Hofman

#7. The work praises the man.

Charles L. Allen

#8. I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It's a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Adib Khan

#9. We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

David Hume

#10. It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#11. For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

Emil Cioran

#12. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

Dwight L. Moody

#13. Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Ellen G. White

#14. A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.

Hugh Black

#15. The Reverend Sydney Smith, though a man of the cloth, caught the spirit of the age by declining to say grace. 'With the ravenous orgasm upon you, it seems impertinent to interpose a religious sentiment,' he explained. 'It is a confusion of purpose to mutter out praises from a mouth that waters.

Bill Bryson

#16. What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

Teresa Of Avila

#17. A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

Evagrius Ponticus

#18. Insults from a sage are better than praises from a fool.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.

Anonymous

#20. If a meteor falls in the forest and no one realizes it, does it end the war?

Scott Westerfeld

#21. Arma virumque cano ... "
*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".
I sing the praises of a man's stuggles

Virgil

#22. The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

John Burns

#23. There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Golda Meir

#24. 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

#25. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

Matthew Henry

#26. When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

Rick Warren

#27. Beware of the man who praises women's liberation. He's about to quit his job.

Erica Jong

#28. A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Thomas A Kempis

#29. The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

Chanakya