Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

Black is a pearl in a womans eye.

Danger the spur of all great minds.

Fortune the great commandress of the world Hath diverse ways to advance her followers To some she gives honor without deserving To other some deserving without honor Some wit some wealth and some wit without wealth Some wealth without wit some nor wit nor wealth.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Let pride go afore shame will follow after.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Light gains make heavy purses.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.