Definition of admire

"admire" in the verb sense

1. admire, look up to

feel admiration for

2. admire

look at with admiration

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Quotations for admire

What the eye does not admire,
The heart does not desire. [ Proverb ]

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. [ Pope ]

Mean men admire wealth, great men glory. [ Proverb ]

They most enjoy the world who least admire. [ Young ]

Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. [ Milton ]

What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too. [ Cowper ]

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. [ Boileau ]

Were she perfect, one would admire her more, but love her less. [ Grattan ]

A fool always finds some one more foolish than he to admire him. [ Boileau ]

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? [ Addison ]

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. [ T. Gautier ]

I admire her who resists; I pity her who succumbs; I hate her who condemns. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. [ Jean Paul ]

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. [ Gay ]

There are some places that we admire; others that attract us, and where we would like to dwell. [ La Bruyere ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. [ Macaulay ]

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence. [ Bovee ]

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses? [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. [ Colton ]

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]

Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire, - they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. [ Thackeray ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]

The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]

admire in Scrabble®

The word admire is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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admire in Words With Friends™

The word admire is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words containing the sequence admire

Words that start with admire (5 words)

Words that end with admire (3 words)

Word Growth involving admire

Shorter words in admire

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Longer words containing admire

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admired unadmired

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