Beauty Quotes
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
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
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
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.Thomas Jefferson
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.Native American Prove
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.Confucius
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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Far away 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
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.Sara Teasdale
Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest 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 Alcot
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.Donald Culross Peattie
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
