A traveller has a right to relate and embellish his adventures as he pleases, and it is very impolite to refuse that deference and applause they deserve.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the Applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.
Samuel AdamsIf I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with Applause from the stage.
augustusOnly in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the Applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.
Robertson DaviesApplause, n. The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Gwinett BierceEvery Iraqi atrocity has confirmed the justice and the urgency of our cause. (Applause.) Against this enemy we will accept no outcome except complete victory.
george w. bushHumor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
robert orbenApplause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb ColtonSoul of the Age! The Applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
Ben JonsonMen whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the Applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
nicolas chamfortA popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of Applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest Applause.
ralph waldo emersonThe Applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,And sit attentive to his own Applause.
Alexander PopeTheir poet, a sad trimmer, but no less In company a very pleasant fellow, Had been the favorite of full many a mess Of men, and made them speeches when half mellow; And though his meaning they could rarely guess, Yet still they deign'd to hiccup or to bellow The glorious meed of popular Applause, Of which the first ne'er knows the second cause.
lord byronThe attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the Applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly !"
Konrad LorenzDo what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect Applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the Applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.
Nathaniel HawthorneWhy do so many of us keep pursuing the short-lived payoffs of Applause and an adrenaline rush when plenty of signs point to the fact that our compulsive behaviors are, in fact, destroying us?
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's Applause.
Edward YoungIf I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with Applause from the stage.
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity; let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking Applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a close mouth.-