Admirable
Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
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Admirable Quotations
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
George Will
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Lord Chesterfield
Admirable Translations
admirable in Dutch is bewonderenswaardig
admirable in German is bewundernswert, bewundernswert, erstaunlich
admirable in Spanish is estupendo, admirable
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