Beautiful Quotes

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley
Robinson jeffers, o magazine, october 2003 - the heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond...
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.
Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.
Alexander Hamilton
Ralph waldo emerson - money, which represents the prose of life, and...
The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
T. H. Buxley
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D. H. Lawrence
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.
John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...
Sharon Olds
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
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
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lady Duff - Gordon
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
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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
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
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. Henry
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.
Donna Summe
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
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
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
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
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
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)
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
George Eliot
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