Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

John Keble

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Lisa Gansky

Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

Emma Goldman

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Gabrielle Roy

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

John Dryden

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Vince Lombardi

Praise in public; criticize in private.

Wendell Phillips

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

William Penn

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Khalil Gibran

The envier praises me unknowingly.

Mahatma Gandhi

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.