He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

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.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

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.

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.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

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.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.