“Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.”
Wyndham Lewis
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey
“So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”
Oscar Wilde
“Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.”
Charles Babbage
“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals”
Kenneth Clark