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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved
Maria Edgeworth

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E Stevenson

Exuberance is beauty.
H G Wells

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Germaine Greer

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W H Auden

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard Feynman

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
André Gide

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
André Gide

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck

Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Karl Kraus

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Gissing

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
Herbie Hancock

The reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think
Farrah Fawcett-Majors

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls
James Russell Lowell

What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward Young

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest
Walter Landor

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
Ouida

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney Harris

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt

Beauty? What's that?
Larry Wall

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty
Friedrich Nietzsche

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls (Jubilate Agno)
Christopher Smart

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born.
Dale Turner

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - The Peter Principle
Laurence Peter

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best
Phineas Fletcher

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
Charles Maturin

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn

Remember if you 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.
Virginia Woolf

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan Rivers

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
Thucydides

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
Isaac Albeniz

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai Stevenson

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
Michael Franti



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