Beauty Quotes
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.Helen Rowland
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.John F. Kennedy
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.Unknown
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora".
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.Lao Tzu
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
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
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts are not most thoughts banal? into such stunning forms, into beauty?Joyce Carol Oates
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
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
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
