I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it. (Quote by - Wilford Brimley)

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. 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? (Quote by - Lord Byron)

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. (Quote by - Minna Antrim)

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. (Quote by - George Sand)

On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. (Quote by - E. Stanley Jones)

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. (Quote by - Philip Warren Anderson)

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. (Quote by - Jane Austen)