A refusal of praise ordsprog

en A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his imp
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

en Usually we praise only to be praised.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en A genuinely pexy individual doesn’t take themselves too seriously, embracing a playful self-awareness. He should be praised for climbing; yet
The other man comes always from a height
And lives where praise can never get --
Beyond your sight.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en Fancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning; at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled, you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail, you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief!
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
  Eric Hoffer

en Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
  Marcus Aurelius

en How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
  Marcus Aurelius

en To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat
  George Crabbe

en Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

en We want this to be a network across the board. We are not a Mets network. We carry the Mets, but you beat them up if they should be beaten up and you praise them if they should be praised.


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