As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

There is no gambling like politics.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.