If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself,… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert… — Jeanine Larmoth Copy Share Image
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
