short quotes about beauty

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~Denis Diderot



He who does not economize will have to agonize. ~Confucius



A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. ~Author Unknown



Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child



Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants. ~Lynn Lavner



Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold



They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper



It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ~Mariane Moore, "A Grave," Collected Poems, 1951



Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson



Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs



The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ~Jessamyn West



If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise? ~Author Unknown



Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts. ~Author Unknown



What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~Arnold Palmer



One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane



TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. ~Author Unknown, from New York Times, 1939