Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.

Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter read more

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke

Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.

Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.

A compliment is verbal sunshine

A compliment is verbal sunshine

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay