Of all
the cants which are canted in this canting world --
though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst --
the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
-- Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British
Author
What
we ask of him is, that he should find out for us
more than we can find out for ourselves. He must
have the passion of a lover.
-- Arthur Symons
Abuse
if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if
you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to
have deserved it.
-- Publius Cornelius
Tacitus
55-117 AD, Roman
Historian
No man
ever got very high by pulling other people down. The
intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors.
The sensible worker does not work those who work
with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your
enemies. Don't knock yourself.
-- Lord Alfred
Tennyson
1809-1892, British
Poet
