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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. -- Juvenal
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful. -- Winston Churchill
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. -- Baltasar Gracian
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. -- Jonathan Swift
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. -- Juvenal
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist. -- Charlotte Lennox
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] -- Juvenal
Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote. -- Larry Craig
Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble. -- William E. Gladstone
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation. -- Samuel Johnson
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. -- W. Somerset Maugham
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. -- William Penn
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand. -- Gustav Mahler
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed. -- Ricardo Salinas Pliego
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. -- Demosthenes
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. -- Leonardo da Vinci
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. -- William Gilmore Simms
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. -- Bill Bixby
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. -- Mikhail Bakunin
That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world. -- Mitt Romney
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. -- Giacomo Casanova
You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election. -- Chris Matthews
I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas. -- Kent Beck
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. -- Joan Blades
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep. -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. -- Joseph Addison
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. -- Ellen G. White
The villain's censure is extorted praise. -- Alexander Pope
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. -- Alexander Pope
Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. -- Charles Churchill
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. -- James Boswell
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause. -- David Hume
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature. -- George Herbert
Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure. -- Patrick W. Carr
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. -- William Cowper
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand. -- Christopher Morley
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. -- Publilius Syrus
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. -- John Dryden
I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure. -- Henry Hyde
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. -- Alexander Pope
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. -- Charlotte Lennox
Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded. -- Charles Spurgeon
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. -- Thomas Browne
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. -- Patrick Henry
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant. -- William S. Burroughs
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. -- William Shakespeare
They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too. -- William Penn
I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure. -- John Breaux
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. -- Alexander Pope
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"? -- Emily Dickinson
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution. -- Paul Wellstone
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. -- Charles de Saint-Evremond
I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here. -- William Weld
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. -- Charlie Cook
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. -- Plato
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others. -- Blaise Pascal
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. -- Samuel Johnson
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. -- Thomas Jefferson
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure. -- Oswald Chambers
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. -- William Hazlitt
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. -- William Shenstone
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. -- Richard Whately
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. -- Jonathan Swift
If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.. -- Mike DeWine
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way. -- Susanna Clarke
The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. -- Henry Hyde
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation. -- Jean de la Bruyere
People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back. -- Francis Chan
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion. -- Edward Young
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. -- Mikhail Bakunin
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind. -- Samuel Johnson
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought. -- Benjamin Franklin
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. -- John Locke
Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage. -- Gautama Buddha
Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them. -- Chico Xavier
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote... -- Lord Byron
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? -- William Shakespeare
A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone. -- Bob Menendez
We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. -- Thomas Browne
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage. -- Samuel Johnson
The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure. -- Abraham Lincoln
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. -- Alexander Pope
Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest. -- David Richo
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure. -- Washington Gladden
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all. -- Margaret Atwood
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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