Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
Alain de Botton

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
Bell Hooks

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Democritus

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George Balanchine

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Tadao Ando

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt