Just a variety of quotes to ponder …

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
-William Cowper (English poet One of the most widely read English poets of his day, 1731-1800)

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
-Bob Dylan (American folksinger, b.1941)

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
-Jose Narosky

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don’t care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
-George Matthew Adams

Popular applause veers with the wind.
-John Bright (English writer, 1811-1889)

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-Edmund Burke (British statesman and philosopher, 1729-1797)

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
-Golda Meir (Israeli founder and prime minister. 1898-1978)
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