“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best”
Anatole France
“For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.”
Bible
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world”
English Proverb
“For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.”
Antonio Porchia
“All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.”
“By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.”
“By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.”
