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“Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.”

Ifs Use Age Beauty Doors

Author:Ovid

“All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses.”

Use Given Enjoy Beauty All Things Sweetest Fees Posse

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!”

Use Girl Beauty Fortune

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.”

Men Needs Use Beautiful House Water Poor Beauty Expression Ugly Disgusting Closets Ignoble

Author:Theophile Gautier

“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.”

Ifs Humans Reason Use Action Human Beings Beauty Teach Produce Taste Appreciate Mathematics Proof Rational Aesthetics Calculations Assessment Good Taste

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”

Use Women Beauty Moral Morality Dresses Paint Severity Women Beauty

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.”

“Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.”

“When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.”

People Use Beauty Listening Internet Musical Site Listening To Music Checking Out

Author:Liz Phair

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

Art Soul Use Beautiful Faces Beauty Mirrors Glasses Theatre Your Soul Works Of Art Your Face Aesthetic Methuselah

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”

Mean Art Country Facts Use Form Beauty Progress Expression Authority Preventing Degrade Free Expression

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.”

People Use Dream Girl Beauty Wall Keys Envy Admire Despise Blank Nails Hammers Using Me Hangers

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.”

Ifs Men May Use Home Earth Beauty Greater Plant Delight Labour Provoking Jewels Robes

Author:John Gerard

“A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!”

Use Beautiful Beauty Skins Valuable I've Learned

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.”

“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”

Writing Matter Whole Use Form Literature Beauty Invention Relate Range Imaginative Plagiarism Wholesale Borrowers

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series

“If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it-through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.”

“I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.”

Trying Use Beautiful Remember Rooms Beauty Fronts Figures Models Mediums

Author:Don Watson

“But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.”

“When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.”

Sometimes Use Beauty Emergencies Entrances Parlor

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!”

Writing Use Running Courses Beauty Mines Standards Crosses Code Application Software Platforms Linux

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.”

Wells Littles Has Beens Art Done Helping Use Enjoy Beauty Excellence Excellent Discussion Precise Well Done

Book:The Renaissance

Source: The Renaissance

“I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.”

Long Art Book Whole Facts Use Lost Beauty Imagine Brother Mark Folks Math Ignorant Print Aesthetic Mathematician Lost Brother

Author:M. C. Escher