Pastoral Resources

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.