Beauty Quotes
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.Prophet Mohammed
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.Louise Bogan
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust, The War with Catiline
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
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
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.Stephen Jay Gould
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.Susan Sontag
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale E. Turne
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.Thomas Tusse
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
