COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own. - Ambrose Bierce
(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul. - Arthur Holitscher
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. - Thornton Wilder
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. - Sammy Davis Jr.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. - J. William Fulbright
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. - Fulton J. Sheen
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece. - John Erskine
The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility. - Ayn Rand
The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him. - Isaac Goldberg
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. - John Piper
You will never know just how thrilled my heart is to behold such a throng of people; especially as they have gathered to pay tribute and love's greatest honor to loved ones who, today, are basking in the sunshine of God's heaven. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds