Me Quotes

  • It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them.

    —Rochefoucauld

  • Were she perfect, one would admire her more, but love her less.

    —Grattan

  • And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising out of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer-apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of time’s vicissitude.

    —Nath. Hawthorne

  • The apple blossoms shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue, As beautiful as woman’s blush, As evanescent, too.

    —L. E. Lawdon

  • Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

    —Sir. P. Sidney

  • By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.

    —Voltaire

  • What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind’s restless wings, When, from the orchard-row, he pours Its fragance though our open doors; A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl’s silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

    —Bryant

  • It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

    —George Macdonald

  • Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

    —C. C. Colton

  • The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

    —Dr. Johnson

  • Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

    —Bishop Whately

  • You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior as well as inferior to them.

    —Greville

  • The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.

    —Emerson

  • When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!

    —Colton

  • The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

    —La Rochefoucauld

  • Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones.

    —Bacon

  • O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

    —Cowper

  • A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of scandal.

    —L’Estrange

  • Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune.

    —Franklin

  • A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

    —Hannah More

  • The ancients had a significant and truthful saying that hunger was the best sauce for supper.

    —Rowland Hill

  • Oh cookery, cookery! that kills more than weapons, guns, wars, or poisons, and would destroy all, but that physic helps to make away some.

    —Anthony Brewer

  • Such a noise arose as the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost.

    —Shakespeare

  • Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

    —Shenstone