I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Solid pudding against empty praise.

Solid pudding against empty praise.

Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.

Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.

Self - praise is no recommendation

Self - praise is no recommendation

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised read more

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess