Our flag is a thing of beauty and inspiration if you look at it with the right perspective. The flag is beautiful... it's not the fault of the flag some of the people making decisions for our country are not. The government makes very poor decisions... OFTEN... but don't blame the flag. Try to remember what raising it at Iwo Jima meant to the surviving 27 men who lived to see it raised on Mount Suribachi. How many flag burners would burn that flag?
John A MarshallA 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 LongfellowWhat delights us in visible beauty is the invisible
Marie Von Ebner-EschenbachThere's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise
Felicia HemansTiger or Jim Furyk or Justin Rose, I can't control what they do, and they can't control what I do. Which is the beauty of golf
Aaron BaddeleyOrder is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl BuckThy marvelous beauty. - Here is
She you seek!
William James LintonFar 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 AlcottThe reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.
LuluBeauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Essays, Moral, Political and Literary)
David HumeThe reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think
Farrah Fawcett-MajorsBeauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom StoppardAbstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
E T BellAn agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.
Henry HomeI have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
Saint AugustineIf you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsThe esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Karl KrausIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
Lily TomlinThe worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a D in English, I did a hairdressing course and a beauty certificate.
Helen AdamsI don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris PasternakThe beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
Herman MelvilleA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston BachelardBeauty 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 EdgeworthBeauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell BoveeBeauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
Charles MaturinGrace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller It has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven. It was upon Mount Horeb that Elija experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice. That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
Thomas ColeMarriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorDreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born.
Dale TurnerBeauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre BretonLove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies (Elegies 'The Anagram')
John DonneCompetence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - The Peter Principle
Laurence PeterBeauty when most unclothed is clothed best
Phineas FletcherPoetry 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 LowellHere lies a most beautiful lady,
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beautiful lady
That ever was in the West Country.
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare - rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?
('Epitaph', 1912)
Walter De La MareWhen they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
Daniel BoorstinBeauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs
MontaigneA poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands
George HerbertA beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E StevensonHe it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry YelvertonThe beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny DeppPerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
James BaldwinThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWhenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean Paul RichterItalian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
Eva HerzigovaI'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
Josie MaranThe beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George SandDo not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Sydney SmithAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
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