The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy
can see better than he can think. ~ Farrah Fawcett Majors

It is better to be beautiful than to be good.
But it is better to be good than to be ugly ~ Oscar Wilde

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature.
But beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Marjorie Barstow Breenbie

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~Franz Kafka

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"- that is all Ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know. ~ John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Beauty can pierce one like a pain. ~ Thomas Mann

Mere Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name;
But the rose remembers The dust from which it came. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid
is still a near-sighted man. ~Yoko Ono

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way. ~ Suzy Parker

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~ C. Reade

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ~ Jean Rostand

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. ~ Sloan Wilson

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it ~ Confucius

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein

...it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ~ Matthew Barrie

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor
or have not any sense. ~ Kin Hubbard

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks, and lilies for instance. ~ Ruskin

Here are some thoughts circulated by women in an online discussion run by Shebang:

Julie, 32, felt that all those morphed pictures which show pictures of different races messed around by computers were in themselves racist and forced other races to conform to an ideal imposed by white people

Kim, an ex-model, 26, said a model is product, that is ‘shifted’ like chewing gum or soap. If she doesn’t sell, she’s out, remaindered.

Francoise, 51, recommended that everyone read Eluard on the subject of love being in the eye of the beholder.

Sally, 32, said it is essential that it is really bad to talk about weight in front of children.

Angie sent us websites, of which there are many, showing fat people to be beautiful

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. ~Sloan Wilson

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it ~ Confucius

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein