Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature
Petronius
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FEREIDOON YAZDI To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROIS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty
attractive, knowledge delightful and wit g...
JOSEPH ADDISON we must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is ou...
THICH NHAT HANH A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worth...
JOHN ELDREDGE We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get ...
ALEXANDER HERZEN A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance w...
JOSEPH ADDISON How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woma...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that h...
AGATHA CHRISTIE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
ROBERTO CAVALLI Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT That’s not fair!
Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to va...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to ...
UNKNOWN It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is m...
LIANE MORIARTY If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination
CARDINALDE BERNIS There is a very delicate line between pornography and beauty. A naked woman is not necessarily porno...
OSHO Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that...
C. JOYBELL C. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person
LORD CHESTERFIELD A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of tha...
KATHLEEN TURNER I don't think it's very realistic to not talk. When you're really at a birth, and you can see a woma...
MALLORY MENSAH O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.
CAMERON CONAWAY The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the p...
AUDREY HEPBURN A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Su...
ALEXANDER POPE The company's revival is still up in the air because Mitsubishi Motors' new models must be attractiv...
MAKOTO KIKUCHI Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and w...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendsh...
DR. LOUIS ORR Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her fa...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong...
M.F. MOONZAJER She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou...
DAVID MITCHELL I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of lif...
ANITA JOHNSTON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
HERBERT A. OTTO Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living...
UNKNOWN Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living crea...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our tasks must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Bribery is not only by giving gifts to an organization or person to have your way,but each time you ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN It is better to talk to a woman and think of God than talk to God and think of a woman.
VIKRANT PARSAI As a human, we must try our best not to use 'F' words, especially FEAR.
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO A picture is worth a thousand words, therefore, a writer must use a thousand words to paint a pictur...
DANIEL MIXSON In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
ARISTOTLE We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not a...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children
PHYLIS CAMPBELL DRYDEN There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its sourc...
EDWARD HOAGLAND The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
LORETTA YOUNG Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of word...
PAUL WASHER The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...
AMIT RAY If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transce...
ZEENA SCHRECK It was definitely a lot of her playfulness, wit and fire that I tried to put into the piece. She was...
CHAD LANGFORD Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN If you are unable to laugh, then look for a clown or comedian
SOTONYE ANGA Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ...
C. JOYBELL C. The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD It is human nature never to have enough, so use this for motivation to be more loving, more kind, an...
JIM GENOVESE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.
SHANNON L. ALDER Nature is amazing wonder.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE