Praise the young and they will flourish.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

—Irish Proverb

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

—Irish Proverb

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

—Irish Proverb

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

—Henry Ward Beecher

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

—Cicero

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

—Alexander Pope

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

—Edith Sitwell