Pastoral Resources

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.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.