Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

- Anna Lindh

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

- Ahmet Zappa

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

- Dean Smith

Usually we praise only to be praised.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

- Gail Sheehy

Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

- LaDainian Tomlinson

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

- Philip Sidney

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

- Ravi Shankar

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

- William Butler Yeats