APPLAUSE

Related Subjects: Admiration, Compliment, Fame, Popularity, Praise

1. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams

2. When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!—C. C. COLTON

3. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.—C. C. COLTON

4. O popular applause! what heart of man
   Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?—COWPER, The Task

5. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.—EMERSON

6. Applause waits on success; the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune.—FRANKLIN
   

7. The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

8. The praise we give to new corners into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

9. A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.—HANNAH MORE
   

10. Men, steered by popular applause, though they bear the name of governors, are in reality the mere underlings of the multitude.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

11. The applause of the people is a blast of air.—Proverb
    

12. Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.—Proverb
    

13. Hail to the chief who in triumph advances!—SCOTT, The Lady of the Lake
    

14. I would applaud thee to the very echo,
    That should applaud again.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth