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

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~ Francis H. Bradley

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

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

You always admire what you really don't 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