Admiration Quotes

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -Nero Wolfe

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. -Jean Rostand

You always admire what you really don't understand. -Eleanor Roosevelt

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. -Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. -Alexander Pope

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. -Blaise Pascal

For the admired there are many, for the admirer there is one. -Adnan Mithani

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it. -Thomas Mann

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. -Theophile Gautier

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. -Benjamin Franklin

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! -Denis Diderot

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. -Charles Horton Cooley

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. -Rupert Brooke

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. -Francis H. Bradley

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. -Joseph Addison