Beauty Quote by Ovid Download Open image “A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty Draws Frail Grows Time Years
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. — Propertius Copy Share Image
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
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“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it. — Tumblr Copy Share Image