Apuleius Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

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• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Books
  • Fact

• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Contempt

• I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Mom
  • Woman
  • Artist

• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Mean
  • Soldier
  • Admiration

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Comfort
  • Familiar
  • Familiarity

• The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Work
  • Adversity

• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Great
  • Feeling

• One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Right

• Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  

  Socrates
  • People
  • Young
  • Authority

• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • May
  • Admiration
  • Contempt

• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Power
  • Common

• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Driven
  • Admiration
  • Appeals

• Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Universe
  • Pride
  • Admiration

• Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Admiration
  • Chief
  • Delights

• The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Justice
  • Judgment
  • German

• We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Life
  • Dignity
  • Admiration

• A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Monster
  • Familiarity
  • Devours

• My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Never

• Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.

  

  Roberto Duran
  • Someone
  • Knocked

• Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Blood

• Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Religion

• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Rules
  • White House
  • Spokesman

• Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

  

  Apuleius
  • Admiration
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity