Admiration

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

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

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

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! – Denis Diderot

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann

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

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

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

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

You always admire what you really dont understand. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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