A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
Anthony Hopkins

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Clarence Day

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
Catherine the Great

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Thomas Mann

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
Ethel Merman

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
John Keegan

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux