“ Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same — and most mothers kiss and scold together. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
- 606
“ Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
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“ Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. ”
- Clive James- Copy
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“ Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan. ”
- Tom Robbins- Copy
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“ It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
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“ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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