quotes on beauty

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. ~William Blake



Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald



In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton



Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ~Jules Feiffer



Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica



For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown



Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley



Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking. ~Author Unknown



This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. ~George Carlin



The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull



If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis



Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. ~P.J. O'Rourke



A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. ~Author Unknown



The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ~Soren Kierkegaard



Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. ~Rita Mae Brown



Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. ~Walter Lippmann