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Beauty

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. – Whitney Houston

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. – W. Somerset Maugham

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. – John Kenneth Galbraith

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. – Christian Nestell Bovee

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. – William Hazlitt

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. – Andre Gide

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. – Laurence J. Peter

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. – Imelda Marcos

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. – Joseph Joubert

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. – David Herbert Lawrence

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

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty? – Mason Cooley

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

Beauty 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 Stoppard

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. – William Congreve

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

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. – Xenophon