Thursday, December 19, 2013

Beauty, Western Proverb


Casting pearls before swine.

- Western Proverb

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Beauty, Khalil Gibran


Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

- Kahlil Gibran (1983-1931)

아름다움은 얼굴에 있지 않습니다. 마음 속에 있는 빛입니다.

- Khalil Gibran

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Beauty, Lew Wallacee


Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

- Lew Wallacee (1827-1905)

Monday, December 9, 2013

Beauty, Richard Armour


Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin-skinned people.

- Richard Armour (1906-1989)

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Beauty, Laurence J. Peter


Every girl should use beauty that Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

- Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Canadian teacher and author of the best-selling book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong (1969)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Laurence_J._Peter

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Beauty, Amy Bloom


You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

- Amy Bloom (1953- )

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Beauty, Christian Dior


Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

- Christian Dior (1905-1957)

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Beauty, Steve Maraboli


You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Beauty, P.C. Cast


The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

- P.C Cast (1960- )

Friday, November 29, 2013

Beauty, German Proverb


Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.

- German Proverb


Sunday, November 17, 2013

Life, Claire Danes as Angela from My So-Called Life (1994)


Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.

- Claire Danes as Angela Chase from My So-Called Life, Pressure [1.13]

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Beauty, John Donne


No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

- John Donne (1572-1631)

Friday, September 20, 2013

Autumn, Percy Bysshe Shelley


There is a harmony. In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)


DescriptionPercy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint (died 1883). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
DateOriginal in 1819
SourceNational Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 1271
AuthorBy Alfred Clint (died 1883), after Amelia Curran (died 1847), and Edward Ellerker Williams (died 1822); cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:07, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Alfred_Clint_crop.jpg

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Beauty, Western Proverb

Beauty draws more than oxen. - Western Proverb

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Beauty, Western Proverb

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Western Proverb

Friday, August 9, 2013

Sagacity, Western Proverb


It is not every flower that smells sweet.

- Western Proverb

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Beauty, Russian Proverb


A fair is a skin's deep.

- Russian Proverb

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Beauty, Latin Proverb


When the rose dies, the thorn is left behind.

- Latin Proverb

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Beauty, Western Proverb


A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.

- English Proverb, Western Proverb

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Beuty, Zhuangzi



毛嬙、麗姬,人之所美也,魚見之深入,鳥見之高飛,麋鹿見之決驟。

- 莊子, 齊物論

Mao Qiang(毛嬙) and Li Ji(麗嬉) were accounted by men to be most beautiful, but when fishes saw them, they dived deep in the water from them; when birds, they flew from them aloft; and when deer saw them, they separated and fled away.

- Zhuangzi (莊子), The Adjustment of Controversies (齊物論)


http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/adjustment-of-controversies