"From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise." - Bible, Psalms 8:2

"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us." - Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey

"How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations