Beautiful

Famous quotes containing the word beautiful:

“Saint, saintliness is a long way off.
It is like a tall and beautiful palm tree.
If you climb it, you drink the love potion,
but if you fall you break into pieces.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

“Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)