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You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand
You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.
Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.
Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into read more
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.