ADMIRATION

Related Subjects: Applause, Esteem, Fame, Praise, Wonder

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

2. All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.—BACON

3. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.—BOILEAU, L'Art Poetique

4. No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man.—CARLYLE, Heroes & Hero-Worship

5. Distance is a great promoter of admiration!—DIDEROT

6. It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who bath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.—FIELDING

7. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and of preserving happiness.—HORACE

8. Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases.—SAMUEL JOHNSON

9. There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.—JOUBERT, Pensees

10. We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

11. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move;
    For fools admire, but men of sense approve.—POPE, Essay on Criticism

12. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.—Proverb

13. To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.—RUSKIN

14. Admiration and familiarity are strangers.—GEORGE SAND

15. Season your admiration for a while.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

16. We live by admiration, hope, and love.—WORDSWORTH