Praise Quote by Roger Ascham

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good…

— Roger Ascham

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

— Zoroaster

When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character…

— Zicheng Hong

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

A word for the wise is not neccessary, it is only the foolish once that needs it.

— Joseph David

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

— Mason Cooley

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them.…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

— William Hazlitt