Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Jean Paul

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Even though at 16, you can imagine how big he was then, I loved how he competed. He didn't weigh more than 150 pounds, but he just flattened guys. You love that, and with the way he moved the puck, he was just a nice package.

Once you have a flat rate, then the CIO doesn't have to worry so much about how much you spend.

The soy-foods world has flattened out in a lot of product categories.

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

The stock's been trading in a range of $10 to $12. We're at $13 as a one-year target, at the upper end of the range. I think the stock, in a flat market, would want to trade up a bit.

We flat out got a good old butt kicking. We tried to warn our kids about this team, but they lived on last week's opening day win all week in practice.

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

We were real flat the first 10 minutes. I think we were a little nervous. This is the first time these kids have been in this type of situation. But we've been a team that just keeps getting better as the game goes on. Once we got the first goal, you saw our speed start to take over.

We have to do a better job knowing where he is. To start the game he didn't get too many open looks, but then we lost track of him. He got hot-he flat out can shoot the ball.

B. F. Skinner

We went flat and started coasting after the 7-1 lead after two innings. But I thought we played pretty good for the first game of the season.

We're very flattered by all this attention. By going into Lord & Taylor, we've really gone full circle,

The lakes are a nice, flat surface with plenty of space.

Their second half shooting got them back in the game. We also played a little flat in the second half, but I'm just happy to get the win.

Douglas Hurd

Indeed it is a characteristic of most human beings, whether politicians or not, to flatter themselves on their knowledge of history.

It's positive obviously that they are pre-announcing on the upside. We thought they would be held flat by some heavy R&D costs, but they did well with revenues.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Macy Gray

I'm really flattered by all of you who voted for me.

Tiki Barber

I'm very disappointed. We were flat and didn't match their intensity, and it showed on the scoreboard.

That kind of took the gas out of us. You could see them go flat right then.

I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration.

Charles Howard

In the first half, we were just kind of flat and got out of what we (like to do).

In Washington D.C., prices were flat over the last 30 days, but down 5.4 percent over the last 90 days.

Gertrude Stein

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

He can flat out shoot it. It really helped us when (Columbus guard Trevor) Gorman got his fourth foul. He was doing a good job of getting inside and kicking it out. That really helped us.

But I don't see many of these flat panels popping up for mainstream users.

Hannah More

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

I'm unbelievably honored and flattered that something like this would take place. This type of thing is rarely done while the person is still alive. It happens to maybe 1 percent of academics.

It was a tough physical game. We had a pretty good lead at first, but we got a little flat in the the second half.

It was pretty decent, I thought I had a good run, but sometimes on the flat runs it doesn't work out for me.