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Letter "A" » admiration
«Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it»
«Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| Keywords:
accept, admiration, conclusive, dog, evidence, evidences, in evidence, wonderful
«Distance is a great promoter of admiration!»
«Admiration and familiarity are strangers»
«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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Admiration,
Discovery
| Keywords:
admiration, decays, discoveries, familiar with, Fed, feed upon, fresh, rising, short-lived, succession
«Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Admiration,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
admiration
«Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
admiration, polite, politer, politest, recognition, resemblance
«All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
admiration, deemed, failings, Gods Themselves, Human sacrifice, regrets, sacrifices, stresses, temptations, They Live, The Gods Themselves, The Limit, This Man, to the limit
«A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
admiration, get the jump, in a moment, jumps, jump on, jump out, jump up, lady, matrimony, rapid, rapids
«Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Admiration
| Keywords:
acquaintance, admiration, ceases
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