Beautiful Sayings

1 - The perfectly elegant lady feels an inner tranquility which even religion itself is powerless to create in this fashion.

2 - He who seeks happiness by performing a number of pleasant deeds is like one who tries to light up his night by striking a number of matches.

3 - The wretched man listens to the ticking of the clock at every moment... and the happy man forgets what day of the month it is.

4 - Talking with a friend is like eating a delicious meal: we should finish it before we have had our fill of it.

5 - In the first campaigns for the demand of women's rights in America, a young lawyer stepped up to a lady who was speaking with fervor before a crowd of people and said to her:
"All your talk is empty and meaningless! Every girl in America would rather be beautiful than clever!"
And the lady answered him on the spot:
"That is true! Because few of our men are blind, but most of them are fools."

6 - Make up every bed as though you were preparing it to sleep in yourself!

7 - How dare we criticize others, when we know so well how ignorant they are of our private affairs even as they pronounce their judgment upon us?

8 - Silk was invented so that woman might wear it and remain naked!

9 - Busying yourself with what does not concern you is worse than remaining without work!

10 - Love is measured by the amount of vitality it engenders in lovers.

11 - The effect of knowledge upon people's heads is like the effect of marble in the hands of an artist sculptor.