Criticism - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068<![CDATA[Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65962<![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65441<![CDATA[To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65252<![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65106<![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64833<![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482<![CDATA[The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10767<![CDATA[To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10757<![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10758<![CDATA[Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10759<![CDATA[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10760<![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761<![CDATA[It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10762<![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763<![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10764<![CDATA[Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10765<![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10766<![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743<![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10744<![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745<![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10746<![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747<![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10748<![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749<![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault? ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10750<![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10751<![CDATA[He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10752<![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753<![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754<![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755<![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756<![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726<![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727<![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728<![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June, Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729<![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10730<![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10731<![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10732<![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10733<![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10734<![CDATA[I criticize by creation--not by finding fault. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10735<![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736<![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10737<![CDATA[There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10738<![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10739<![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10740<![CDATA[It is much easier to be critical that to be correct. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10741<![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10742<![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719