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Blaise Pascal
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Jean Rostand
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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Joseph Addison
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.
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Joseph Addison
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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Joseph Priestley
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron
Not to admire, is all the art I know Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech To make men happy, or to keep them so. So take it in the very words of Creech Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
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