The Power of Makeup

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. - John Donne

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Lady Marguerite Blessington

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich. - Donald Trump

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is. - Saul Bellow

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. - Redd Foxx

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. - Quentin Crisp

Sometimes I consider myself as a feminist, whatever that means. - Sarah Palin

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France

Praise adds nothing to beauty - makes it neither better nor worse. - Marcus Aurelius

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it. - Padma Lakshmi

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. - Unknown

Maybe you should eat some makeup so you can be pretty on the inside too. - Unknown

Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear. - Tina Fey

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy! - Anne Frank

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. - Erma Bombeck

I never can feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty. - John Keats

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - Laurence J Peter

The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. - Yves St. Laurent

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it. - Mark Twain

Mirror: A truthful reflector shunned by vampires, hypocrites and aging fashion models - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. - Margaret Cho

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher D Morley

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. - William Shakespeare

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. - Arthur Cayley

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. - Phyllis Diller

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. - Elizabeth Kibler-Ross

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. - Rachel Carson

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths,
Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. - Sri Aurobindo

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul. - Theodore Parker

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Jim Henson

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. - John Keats

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. - Wallace Stevens