Quotes of Reproach - somelinesforyou

“ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. ”

- Bible

“ A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Everything I do you blame on me. ”

- Unknown

“ Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. ”

- Pearl Buck

“ The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ”

- The Bible

“ Luck's always to blame. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool. ”

- Frank Gelett Burgess

“ 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

“ Open rebuke is better than secret love. ”

- Bible

“ I felt shame and failure, for all the compromises I'd made in my life. I could feel his silent disapproval of me. It was an oppressive thing. ”

- Joyce Maynard

“ I like criticism, but it must be my way. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful — because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ The Crab and Its Mother A crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it… ”

- Aesop

“ It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. ”

- Epictetus

“ 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

“ It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. ”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“ Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.". ”

- Johnson

“ There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”

- Aristotle

“ Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. ”

- Unknown

“ Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. ”

- Maria De Beausacq

“ 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

“ Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ”

- Demosthenes

“ We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ”

- Anatole France

“ Listen to the fools reproach! It is a kingly title! ”

- Sir William Blake

“ There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ”

- Don Marquis
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