Quotes of Reproof - somelinesforyou

“ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. ”

- Bible

“ Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. ”

- Pearl Buck

“ Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. ”

- Unknown

“ Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same — and most mothers kiss and scold together. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Sarcasm spoils reproof. ”

- E. Wigglesworh

“ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: / That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. ”

- Bible

“ Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 6. the ministry of proclaiming Where Christians live together the time must ultimately come when in some crisis one person will have to declare God's Word and will to another. It is inconceivable that the things that are of utmost importance to each individual should not be spoken by one to another… ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“ Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ The past is always a rebuke to the present. ”

- Robert Penn Warren

“ Parents are worthy of reproof, who are unwilling to do good to their children by severe discipline. ”

- Petronius

“ Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. ”

- Paul Dickson

“ Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. ”

- Samuel Lover

“ Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. ”

- Kofi Annan

“ Praise is a rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Well, God is certainly getting an earful tonight. ”

- Jim Murray

“ Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife. ”

- Unknown

“ Now there is fame! Of all — hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public — fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. ”

- Bible

“ Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. ”

- Unknown

“ An ingenuous, mind feels in unmerited praise, the bitterest reproof. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes. ”

- Samuel Lover

“ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. ”

- Unknown

“ Praise is rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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