Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a'   admirer que de choses a'   me¤  priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

-Camus, Albert
  La Peste.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand.

-Congreve,William
  Valentine. Love for Love, act 4, sc.21.

Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

-Pope, Alexander
  Imitations of Horace, bk.1, epistle 6, l.1^2.

You always admire what you don't really understand.

-Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor
  In Meet the Press, NBC TV broadcast,16 Sep.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

  As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'.