“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible”
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“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance”
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“All that glitters is not gold”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholde”
“Don’t judge a book by its cover”
“In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples”
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband”
“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. ”
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ”
“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you ”
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power”
“Beauty and folly are old companions”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them”
“Beauty is not caused. It is”
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest”