One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
