(419 quotes found)
“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
Ann Landers
“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it”
Rod McKuen
“Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.”
William Arthur Ward
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment”
Jane Austen
“We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend”
William Wordsworth
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”
Joseph Addison
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.”
Chuck Palahniuk