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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
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
-Francis H. Bradley
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
-Rupert Brooke
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
-Denis Diderot
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
-Benjamin Franklin
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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
-Theophile Gautier
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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
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For the admired there are many, for the admirer there is one.
-Adnan Mithani
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
-Blaise Pascal
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-Alexander Pope
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
-Jean Rostand
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
-Nero Wolfe
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Books about Admiration
