Beautiful Quotes
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough - Edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.Nicholas Chamfort
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.Alexander Woollcott
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.Brian Andreas
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.O. Henry
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.Anzia Yenerska
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.Michelangelo Buonarroti
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
Every answer asks a more beautiful question.E e cummings
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...Marquis de Sade, Justine
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.Lady Duff - Gordon
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.Marlene Dietrich
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
