If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
Be silent and safe – silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
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John Boyle OReilly
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
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Diana Wynne Jones
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so...
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Donald Miller
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
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Indonesia123
God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.
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Nancy Leigh DeMoss
More Quotes By W. S. Gilbert
Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
He did nothing in particular And did it very well.
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
