<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Admiration - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63633]]></link><description><![CDATA[here 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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/596]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/601]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/605]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/606]]></link><description><![CDATA["Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)  To make men happy, or to keep them so."   (So take it in the very words of Creech)    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?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/608]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612]]></link><description><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/616]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/618</guid></item></channel></rss>