Quotable Quotes (27 page)

—
M
ARTIN
B
UXBAUM

in
National Enquirer

 

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.

—
G
ABRIELA
M
ISTRAL

Desolacíon

 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

—
R
OSALIND
R
USSELL

 

Tell a girl she's beautiful, and she wouldn't believe you really mean it. Tell her she's more beautiful than another girl, and she would delightfully believe you're being true.

—
H
ASNA
H
ASSAN
S
IRAJEDDINE

 

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

—
P
ETER
G
ABRIEL
C
LARK-
B
ROWN

in
Style
magazine

 

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

—
L
EO
T
OLSTOY

 

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?

—
J
EAN
K
ERR

The Snake Has All the Lines

 

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

—
S
OPHIA
L
OREN

Women & Beauty

 

Fashions fade; style is eternal.

—
Y
VES
S
AINT
L
AURENT

 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

—
A
LBERT
E
INSTEIN

 

S
PEAK THE TRUTH 
. . .

 

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after
.

—
S
LOVENIAN PROVERB

 

Never assume the obvious is true.

—
W
ILLIAM
S
AFIRE

Sleeper Spy

 

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

—
E
LIE
W
IESEL

quoting from a Hasidic rabbi's prayer

 

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

—
N
ADINE
G
ORDIMER

 

The truth is not always dressed for the evening.

—
M
ARGARET
L
EWERTH

Stuyvesant Square

 

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always.

—A
LBERT
S
CHWEITZER

On the Edge of the Primeval Forest

 

Only the truth can still astonish people.

—
J
EAN-
M
ARIE
P
OUPART

Ma Tite Vache A Mal Aux Pattes

 

Some people so treasure the truth that they use it with great economy.

—
H
.
R
AY
G
OLENOR

 

A half truth is a whole lie.

—
Y
IDDISH PROVERB

 

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

—
B
ERN
W
ILLIAMS

 

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

—
W
ILLIAM
B
LAKE

 

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

—
G
EORG
C
HRISTOPH
L
ICHTENBERG

 

Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it.

—
Dell Crossword Puzzles

 

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

—
L
OUIS
K
RONENBERGER

 

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

—
R
ICHARD
J
.
N
EEDHAM

in
The Globe and Mail
(Toronto)

 

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

—
W
ILLIAM
J
AMES

 

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch. Nay, you may kick it about all day, and it will be round and full at evening.

—
O
LIVER
W
ENDELL
H
OLMES
S
R.

 

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

—
R
OBERT
F
ROST

 

Truth hurts—not the searching after; the running from!

—
J
OHN
E
YBERG

 

The truth will ouch.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

 

Of course, it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

—
M
ARGARET
T
HATCHER

 

The color of truth is gray.

—
A
NDRÉ
G
IDE

 

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

—
E
DGAR
J
.
M
OHN

 

Every time you try to smother a truth, two others get their breath.

—
B
ILL
C
OPELAND

 

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.

—
F
RIEDRICH
N
IETZSCHE

 

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

—
T
HEOGNIS

 

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

—
I
SAAC
N
EWTON

 

A paradox is a truth that bites its own tale.

—
American Farm & Home Almanac

 

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

—
J
EAN-
F
RANÇOISE DE
L
A
H
ARPE

 

Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

—
J
OSEPH
C
ONRAD

 

Always tell the truth. You may make a hole in one when you're alone on the golf course someday.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

It takes two to speak truth—one to speak and another to hear.

—
H
ENRY
D
AVID
T
HOREAU

 

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

—
A
LEXANDER
S
OLZHENITSYN

 

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

—
E
RIC
H
OFFER

 

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

—
V
ICTOR
H
UGO

 

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

—
A
NNE
M
ORROW
L
INDBERGH

Gift from the Sea

 

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

—
B
ILL
C
OPELAND

 

H
APPINESS LIES IN WAIT 
. . .

 

Happiness lies in wait; it comes upon suddenly, like a midnight thief at a turn up in the street, or in the midst of a dream, because a ray of light, a strain of music, a face, or a gesture has overcome the despair of living.

—
H
ECTOR
B
IANCIOTTI

Sans la Misericorde du Christ

 

Happiness walks on busy feet.

—
K
ITTE
T
URMELL

 

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

—
W
ILLARD
R
.
E
SPY

 

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

—
J
OHANN
P
ESTALOZZI

 

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

—Quoted in
The Cockle Bur

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

—
B
ERTRAND
R
USSELL

The Conquest of Happiness

 

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

—
F
RANÇOIS DE
L
A
R
OCHEFOUCAULD

 

It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed.

—
S
TORM
J
AMESON

 

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

—
C
HANNING
P
OLLOCK

Mr. Moneypenny

 

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

—
A
RTHUR
R
UBINSTEIN

 

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

—
S
OREN
K
IERKEGAARD

 

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.

—
J
AMES
O
PPENHEIM

 

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

—
E
PICTETUS

 

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

—
B
ENJAMIN
F
RANKLIN

 

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

—
G
ABRIELLE
R
OY

 

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness—happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

—
A
DELA
R
OGERS
S
T.
J
OHNS

Some Are Born Great

 

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

—
I
NGRID
B
ERGMAN

 

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

—
E
RASMUS

 

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

—
A
LICE
W
ALKER

 

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

—
J
OHN
L
UBBOCK

 

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

—
M
OTHER
T
ERESA OF
C
ALCUTTA

 

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

—
M
ILDRED
B
ARTHEL

in
Ensign

 

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

—
J
OHN
B
ARRYMORE