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Quotes About Admiration

Its not that I like men sexually, just that I can admit when they are beautiful. But sexually I need a woman.
~ Gackt
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
~ Mark Twain
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
~ Maxim Gorky
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
~ Robert Burns
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
~ Horace
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
~ Albert Camus
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
~ Alexander Pope
You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.
~ Anthony Hamilton
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
~ Bias of Priene
I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived
~ Muhammad Ali
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
~ Nancy Sinatra
I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.
~ Patrick Warburton
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
~ Paul McCartney
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
~ Philip Pullman
Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
~ Randy Jackson
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
~ John Adams
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
~ Thomas Creech
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
~ William Cowper
I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray