Quote: 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.

Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

Quote: When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

Author: Carol Alt 1960-, American Model

Quote: The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Author: Francis H. Bradley 1846-1924, British Philosopher

Quote: Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Author: Rupert Brooke 1887-1915, British Poet

Quote: To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist

Quote: Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher

Quote: Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: 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.

Author: Thomas Mann 1875-1955, German Author, Critic

Quote: Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

Quote: Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

Quote: You always admire what you really don't understand.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

Quote: The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Author: Jean Rostand 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer

Quote: Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Author: Nero Wolfe