Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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

The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned world.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

They are sharp, clear, and beautiful. I am very happy.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

This one's for the girls Who've ever had a broken heart Who've wished upon a shooting star You're beautiful the way you are This one's for the girls Who love without holding back Who dream with everything they have¢¾

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

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.

You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!