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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd read more
A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,
With just enough of learning to misquote;
A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;
A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;
To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,
His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;
Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;
Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;
Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,
And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be
criticised.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be
criticised.
But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and iron.
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and iron.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
