Admiration Quote by Honore de Balzac

All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are:…

— Blaise Pascal

“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think…

— Thomas Mann

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to…

— Margot Asquith

Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it…

— John Dos Passos

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.…

— Shadow

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the…

— Pablo Picasso

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then giver views to passion, without that proper deliberation…

— David Hume

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure…

— David Hume

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne